When Henry V set out from Harfleur the bulk of the French army was still encamped on the banks of the Seine at Vernon. The Dauphin had been there for nearly a month. Contemporaries were puzzled and frustrated by his immobility, especially once the extent of the English losses became known.— The truth was that he did not dare to move west against the English forces at Harfleur because it would have left Paris uncovered at a time when the Duke of Burgundy’s intentions were unclear. John the Fearless had intended from the outset to extract the maximum of political advantage from the crisis. At the end of June 1415 he had sent his ambassadors before the Dauphin with a list of his demands...

On May 22, 1859, the future doctor by profession and writer by vocation Arthur Conan Doyle was born. Few people know that the literary "father" of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes is the author of no less interesting books on spiritualism, to which he devoted more than 40 years of his life. On December 11, 1847, a ghost appeared on the Hydesville farm near New York. The clicks and knocks heard in the walls and in the furniture were heard by two girls Margaret and Katie Fox, who were in the house...