St. Crispin's Day

American  

noun

1. October 25: anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).

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Example Sentences

Instead, he has somehow managed to merge his decadeslong philippic with the St. Crispin’s Day Speech.

From Slate

He typically saved the stirring rhetoric for the last few paragraphs of a chapter, in the form of mini St. Crispin's Day speeches, fanfare for his noble, pragmatic mission:

From Salon

Just before the Battle of Stirling, where his men are hopelessly outnumbered against the British, Wallace rouses his troops with a speech that plays like a Classics Illustrated version of the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Shakespeare’s “Henry V.”

From Los Angeles Times

He developed a photographic memory, reciting playbooks and other monologues, including William Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day Speech and Al Pacino’s team address in “Any Given Sunday.”

From Washington Post

Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech is perhaps one of the most famous monologues in all of Shakespeare, in which the titular king rouses his unlikely force to eventually triumph over a superior enemy.

From The Verge