Henry chooses a Normandy landing rather than the familiar route through Calais and assembles a fleet described as roughly 1,500 ships. The vessels carry more than ten thousand fighters along with horses, cattle, cannon, and the supplies needed to sustain an invasion army. His 540-ton flagship Trinity Royal sails from the Solent amid banners and heraldic display, making the voyage a political spectacle as well as a transport operation. The force lands near the Seine estuary at Harfleur, where the fleet's scale turns unloading into a two-day task. The figures make the material demands of a major medieval amphibious operation unusually concrete.
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Henry V's invasion fleet lands at Harfleur
The 1415 invasion uses a vast Solent fleet to carry soldiers, animals, artillery, and supplies to the Seine estuary at Harfleur.