The Hundred Years War never ended…it just stopped. England could never bring itself to admit that Crecy and Poitiers and Agincourt were all for nothing.
To be fair, a lot I was taught in school I never really retained. I can do basic math, spell and read. I know what photosynthesis is on a basic level, but besides “converting sunlight to energy” I couldn’t say. I can’t even name all the states. I just never cared enough to retain information I considered worthless.
Besides, as an adult I’ve often discovered with some classes, like History, the narrative was often more different than what was taught. Is Columbus still being lauded as a national hero?
France was and remained the greatest military power in Europe through the Hundred Years War. The English won those 3 battles only because the French had become so arrogant that they not only thought they didn’t need strategy or tactics anymore, but at Poitiers and Agincourt they actually recognized how the English had arranged the battle field as a trap, and still charged right into it. Going around and attacking from a different direction was dishonorable or too much trouble…
But after each of those defeats the French learned and beat the English – until a new French King and a new generation of French knights had to learn their lesson over again.
The territory map over the conflict is wild. England controlled nearly every part of France at some point or another over the war. Just never at the same time. England controlled most of the south then territory virtually flipped with the French and territory controlled was almost exactly opposite.
The Hundred Years War never ended…it just stopped. England could never bring itself to admit that Crecy and Poitiers and Agincourt were all for nothing.
They should have read that story about perseverance.
To be fair, a lot I was taught in school I never really retained. I can do basic math, spell and read. I know what photosynthesis is on a basic level, but besides “converting sunlight to energy” I couldn’t say. I can’t even name all the states. I just never cared enough to retain information I considered worthless.
Besides, as an adult I’ve often discovered with some classes, like History, the narrative was often more different than what was taught. Is Columbus still being lauded as a national hero?
France was and remained the greatest military power in Europe through the Hundred Years War. The English won those 3 battles only because the French had become so arrogant that they not only thought they didn’t need strategy or tactics anymore, but at Poitiers and Agincourt they actually recognized how the English had arranged the battle field as a trap, and still charged right into it. Going around and attacking from a different direction was dishonorable or too much trouble…
But after each of those defeats the French learned and beat the English – until a new French King and a new generation of French knights had to learn their lesson over again.
The territory map over the conflict is wild. England controlled nearly every part of France at some point or another over the war. Just never at the same time. England controlled most of the south then territory virtually flipped with the French and territory controlled was almost exactly opposite.
Typo in the second speech bubble: Hundred Years War