Dull, painstaking, technocratic work seldom moves bards and chroniclers in the same way as battlefield victories. Yet the great triumph of Henry’s leadership of the royal council in 1410–11 is that he realizes that nothing can proceed without it.

— Dan Jones Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King (2024)

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