The Bloody Medieval Invasion of France | Battle of Crecy 1346 

In the UK everyday is a rainy day

@@itsnotash69 ...except for the sunny ones!

@@capcompass9298 what sunny days 🤣

@@itsnotash69 Get your dictionary out!

The pleasure of informing others is very real.

Pure butchery.

Seems the only modern comparison are infantry bayonet charges. Gutsy stuff to resist a bayonet charge with that unforgiving steel aimed for your belly.

Yes, this is true. If you see the video on the Battle of Towton, apparently there were twenty eight thousand casualties, in a battle fought at close quarter in mud and winter blizzard conditions. ^^

There are some great doc videos here on YT featuring archaeological finds and forensic assessments of mass graves of medieval battlefields . There is one on the Battle of Towton that is excellent.

@@kimberlypatton205 Thank you for the hands up I'll look at it when I find some time ^^💕

Awesome! I bet that was amazing. Was the tour a caravan led by a guide? If so I’d be interested in getting info on setting up a tour. Would you share?

@@bf3075 It was with Cranenburgh Travel, owned by a friend of mine who is a historian. He organises and hosts historic tours a couple times a year. It's usually in Dutch language (we are Dutch), but given enough demand he could easily do English and German language tours.

U so lucky

@@xdizzy12 thank you so much for the info. I’ll certainly see if more people might be interested in doing this also and if so I’ll look at getting in touch. Appreciate the help.

I did the same ,also with friends , visited Crecy and Agincourt, an ambition I've had since I was a boy , it didn't disappoint.

I’ve read that a good description of the war bow (not ordinary longbow) - The cruise missile of its time.

Let’s also not forget that the idea of chivalrous knights in armor is complete hogwash

It is said that at the end of the Battle of Formigny (1450), the English archers preferred to fight to the de-ath rather than be captured by the French.

How can bulk of an army be of aristocrates?

The fact that it was an English victory must help.

I'm ex millitary, tattoos and to be honest a bit rough looking. I got my undergrads in history when I got out. I've had most of the best historical discussions with people who don't look like stereotypical history nerds. History is for everyone. That's its delight. You don't need a physics degree to be intensly interested in a place/story/event/epoch as an amateur.

Those are great! Saxon chronicles are s bit better tho imo

Not exclusively. But youre mostly correct in that assertion

You can assume my outrage forms at tge speed of light.

I think innocents are still caught up in the crossfire of war today.

Well said, it's like the brutality of the previous 1000 years didn't exist. Nothing new here. Great show tho really enjoyed it.

Where is the proof that dragons and white walkers didn't exist then?? I don't believe you

Yeah. Both the English and French were arseholes.

thanks

Veterans of the Battle of Crecy?

@@jaxellis3008 (it's a joke)

@@cleverusername9369 Hahaha. Thank God. Sorry to ask but some are truly that daft!

@@jaxellis3008 I mean, it is sad to think that we will lose D-Day veterans soon, but also I'm sure there are people dumb enough to see "invasion of France" and immediately think "D-day" and they're probably American. And I'm American, so I can say that.

@@cleverusername9369 and sadly you are not wrong 🤓

The Edward in Braveheart is Edward I. This is much later and is his grandson, Edward III.

@@DaughterofLir Oh, that is embarrassing. I should have realized that. The Braveheart Edward I was still entertaining, nevertheless. There are just too many Edwards among the Kings of England.

He cited some obscure unsupported French source that was not even present at the battle. This guy is no historian. Even his formation theory is completely unsupported. The guy is just a contrarian looking for a point of difference. He ruined this.

Not inherently

Annoying and unfair! Or, just ignorant

There's one thing about Jean Froissart that many people misunderstand as he was "french" speaker but not french himself as he was born in the county of Hainaut which was in the HRE. The other thing is that many falsely believe the war was strictly between france and england but many duchy in france were loyal or ally with the Plantagenet (the dynasty whic ruled england) rather than with the Valois (the dynasty which ruled france) so their interest was to to portray "england" (more accurately the plantagenet) in a better way than france (more accurately the valois). As Philippa (Edward 3 wife) was from the Hainaut, Froissart was rather pro "english" rather than pro "french". Froissart himself worked mostly for Philippa between 1361 and 1369. In the 1370's and 1380's, he worked for the duke of luxembourg, then the duchess of Brabant, then the count of Blois then the duke of Hainaut (none of them besides Blois were lands in france). He finally worked for the count of Foix (who played both sides in the war) and returned in england in 1395 and it was in that time that he criticized "england" (rather Richard 2 rule). Froissart worked only 2 years at the french court (between 1386 and 1388 when he was under the count of Blois) but spent far more time at the english court so it's a long way to say he tried to please the Valois rulers and the french nobles who supported them.

we still act as barbarians in many instances

these are all good questions and deserve their own documentary

No mud happened at Agincourt and poor tactics by the French the use of Longbow has been proven to be formidable but not as overpowering as you were taught

@Harry-mp8vi And you should know because you were there. The English were scared? You would have to be seriously unhinged not to be, do you not think that the French were also scared? In my opinion, The Prussians were a hindrance, delaying the victory and causing many needless fatalities. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree. It's an untestable hypothesis. The indisputable fact is that the Duke of Wellington was victorious. BTW, The Duke of Wellington was, in fact, Irish and not English. You seem to be more than a little envious of the English, why is that?

It was rather the opposite just before the 100YW with the wars of Guyenne between 1294 and 1297 or the war of saint sardos in 1324. Even in the 100YW, the "french" armies prevailing between Poitiers in 1356 and Azincourt in 1415 then between Orleans in 1428 and Castillon in 1453.

Why do you think the English parliament urged other European countries to fight against them? Ask contemporary English people of the time if they did not fear an invasion of England from Boulogne. Populations from the English coasts were probably temporarily displaced in view of the threat. They certainly had the best Navy in the world (this is what reassured them in some way), but certainly not the most powerful land army.

In WW1, the Brits and then, the Americans wouldn't have even dare to send any expeditionnary forces in Western Front since the French maintained the majority of the front for 4 years. And in the end of 1918, the French Army emerged as the most modern army. In Spring Offensive, German strategists had bet everything on mass artillery and elite infantry, they prove incapable of countering French mobility, because of the mass motorisation of its army, especially after the Second Battle of the Marne.

@@tibsky1396 Because England didn't share broders with others continental kingdoms so they were not a threat to them unlike France. The threat of an invasion was no more after Sluys in 1340 and the only other time that could likely happened (and it indeed happened) was in the 1370's and 1380's) so for a war that lasted 116 years, english coasts were threaten often. The reality is that many coastal duchies in france (Brittany wasn't part of france until the early 16th century but let's say it was) were either allied with england (Gascony, Brittany), revolted against the Valois dynasty (Flanders) or had economic ties (Poitou and Normandy) with england so an english invasion was far easier than a french invasion with many french soldiers that could fill their armies.

Did you not hear the things they did? I doubt you'd have admired them had you been one of the French citizens just going about your daily life. They make the Russians in Ukraine seem like pussy cats.

Dreadful arnt they!

He was English, but his ancestors were Angevins-Normans, but also Capetians by his mother side, and French was the language of the court officially until 1385-1399, before Middle-English rose. The motto in Old French "Honi soit qui mal y pense" comes from him by the way, when he created the Order of the Garter.

Henry 4 was the first real english king since Harold Godwinson as english was their first language (middle english for Henry and old english for Harold). Between William 1 and Henry 3, they ruled more lands and people or/and lived a big part of their live in France. Since Edward 1 until Richard 2, the plantagenet empire was no more so they started to focus on the island (mainly against wales, ireland and scotland) and became more and more culturally english but still with strong french roots.

Kind of like how people view what is happening in Gaza eh? Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Shaddap no one cares about your opinion and no one asked. You should concentrate on doing you lets others do them.

He's still too cute though.

At least his handsome face and neck are left untouched. I think tattoos are really ugly, but I don’t have to live with them. Interesting documentary.

Ancient Aliens. What a complete and utter travesty that program is. Utter utter rubbish of the highest order. I hate it.