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In 14th Century French historian Jean Froissart's "Chronicles," he recounts a story of the English waving their fingers at the French during the siege of a castle. According to legend, the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of English longbowmen at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years War. The French, it was said, cut off the index and middle fingers of the right hand of any captured archers, and so the gesture was a sign of defiance from the greatly outnumbered English. Jean LeFevre, a Frenchman who fought on the English side at Agincourt, was later qouted as saying that Henry V included a reference to the French cutting off longbowmen's fingers in his pre-battle speech.

Mike