text:  The close agglomeration of legionary soldiers in the Roman centre the tempest of stones which fell on their ranks from the slings of the Balearic marksmen and the laying bare of the huge unwieldy mass by the defeat of the cavalry on their flanks was precisely the counterpart of what occurred in the army of Philippe of Valois in the first of these memorable fields when the French men-at-arms thirty-two deep were thrown into confusion by the incessant discharges of the English archers their flanks laid open by the repulse of the vehement charge of their horse by Henry V