Trevor Collins

So again, coming back to Macken's story, as it continues, after he's called upon for help, St.

George then appears on a white horse to help them win the battle.

He is surrounded by bowmen, but not just any bowmen, as you described them, you know, with their, I want to say, old-timey kind of hats,

Specifically in this story, they are bowmen from the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, which was part of the Hundred Years War, my history buffs would know.

The story goes on to say that 10,000 Germans perished with the help of these archers, and the British then went on to win the battle.

Obviously a little bit more of a departure from reality, but not so much as to rattle the believability for people susceptible to it.

I'm laying some groundwork.

We know that Macken might have taken some inspiration from the Battle of Mons itself after hearing how well the British held on their own and maybe pulled from some of that to work on this admittedly work of fiction.

But Macken claims that he didn't notate as such, right?

He said the work was entirely crafted in his head.

And much like any movie that's ever been made, you see at the end of the credits, like any resemblance to true people or events or places is all coincidence, right?

So that's kind of his claim is that he's not necessarily imbibing all of this truth into it.

He might have been inspired by it.

And he's kind of saying that any sort of truths amongst the fiction are just kind of being stumbled into.

But this leads us to a very interesting conversation when we talk about the aftermath of this story hitting the world and being published.

But that's the story.

I want to give a pause for a second.

If you have any thoughts or questions before we move into how this story then was broadly accepted and what people responded with it.

Right.

Especially in a time where you don't have cameras so readily available in your pocket.