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Harfleur
Harfleur (ärflörˈ) [key], town (1993 est. pop. 9,221), Seine-Maritime dept., N France, at the mouth of the Seine River on the English Channel. It was a flourishing port during the later Middle Ages but declined because of silting in the 16th cent. The siege and capture (1415) of Harfleur by the English in the Hundred Years War is described by Shakespeare in Henry V.
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- William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act III, Scene III - How yet resolves the governor of the town? This is the latest parle we will admit; Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves; Or like to men proud o
- William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act III - Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed king a
- William Shakespeare: Henry V, Dramatis Personae -
- Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of - Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of, d. 1455, English ...
- William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act III, Scene I - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest st
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