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As Martin Kettle noted in a thoughtful piece in on the Guardian site a few days ago, every battle, given enough time, moves from remembrance to history, regardless of how important it was to us at the time. By way of an example, he points out that the anniversaries of the battles of the Hundred Years War are not marked by either side.

And where there are exceptions, such as Agincourt whose six hundredth anniversary falls to today, they own more to Shakespeare's Henry V and the brilliant speech he puts into Henry's mouth than anything else:

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