I am watching the new film ‘The King’ on Netflix. In it is the Battle of Agincourt, where English and French knights are fighting. If I was there, I would be having a very hard time telling who was on my side due to the similarities in appearance. Minor differences would be impossible to depict during the heat of battle, so killing friends instead of foes must have happened all the time.
We're getting a bunch of questions about "The King." This older answer may be of some interest to you.