Apr 21, 2012 - Explore sophylaughing's board "History of the Middle Finger", followed by 522 people on Pinterest. I presume we have 1414 here because it is the year before 1415: when at the Battle of Agincourt the English (and of course Welsh) longbowmen decimated the French nobility. When displayed with the palm inward toward the signer, it has been an offensive gesture in some Commonwealth nations since at least 1900. The Battle of Agincourt (1415), from the Chroniques d’Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. early 15th century). Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore [soldiers would] be incapable of fighting in the future. Like anything else, some of the information that is there is good and some of it is very bad. From the mid-nineteenth century the Agincourt archer came to fore and has remained there ever since. While Americans ‘flip the bird’ with a single middle finger, the British have traditionally achieved the same with two. Think about it, if you were right, the Brits would flip the middle finger. Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French,anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. The two-fingered salute, or backwards victory or V-sign, made with the middle and index fingers, is said to have originated with English archers at Agincourt in 1415. The V sign is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted to make a V shape while the other fingers are clenched. The English army, led by King Henry V, famously achieved victory in spite of the numerical superiority of its opponent. Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Medieval archers did not draw their arrows from a quiver on their backs and would often not wear shoes whilst shooting. The myth is that the French had threatened to cut off the index and middle fingers of any archers they captured. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. Seriously, you have the wrong gesture for this story. Almost 6,000 Frenchmen lost their lives during the Battle of Agincourt, while English deaths amounted to just over 400. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. Most pages describing the battle itself are cribbed from one or another encyclopedia article. 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