‘Not one more!’

Faced with the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, King Henry V’s courtiers wished they had brought more men. But Henry, mindful of morale, assured them that, on the contrary, he would pay for any quaking heart’s passage home, and promised that to their dying day, veterans of the campaign would be revered as heroes.

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