Battle Of Poitiers, 1356 AD ⚔️ Part 2 of 2
The Battle of Poitiers in 1356 was the second major English victory of the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. The effect of the defeat on France was catastrophic. Years of political turmoil and civil unrest followed, leading to a humiliating treaty at Bretigny in 1360, which saw huge portions of the French kingdom ceded to England.
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Great stuff as always, you mind doing the same for the conclusion of the 100 years war? I mean Charles' campaign, not henry V's. So little quality stuff about that
Thank you sir, sorry for the late reply - for some reason I don't get notifications of replies on the pinned comment. 100 years' war is on my list definitely. I love that period.
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@@MaxSafeheaD I do indeed!
"large supply of fish seized" it is little details such as this which takes your channel to the next level of awesome.
Thank you sir.
@@HistoryMarche Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these, oh and the little speech bubbles are rather amusing :D
Hehe, thank you very much. Yes, the goal of the speech bubbles is to poke a bit of fun and to point out some of the ironies of history.
the amount of times the french have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory is astounding
Like at Castillon?
Check out BazBattles' coverage of The Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302 AD). Armored french nobles went up against *peasants* wielding improvised weapons and still got their asses kicked
@@TheSecondVersion "Peasants" ? More like organised, cohesive militias armed with pikes and goedendags...an effective force well manoeuvred put against an effective force with shitty leadership and no regard for discipline.
@@frankcastel5294 well militia is made of peasants. They are almost always poorly trained. Nevertheless the best part or that battle was that the militia/peasants were broken and in retreat when the knights charged them and lost.
@@maxmagnus777Regardless of that, the longbow was pretty ineffective in the Hundred Years War, but the historical elite don't want you to know that, they focus very strongly on the defeat of minor cavalry attacks to lead people into thinking that the French didn't change anything.
>doesn't want to give the patient a tiny cut >burns him alive instead
lol
*_JustCrusaderKingsThing_*
Big brain moment
R.I.P. Clermont :( He sounded like an actual competent commander. He didn't deserve to die.
Indeed he was. In fact, during my research he seemed like the only reasonable person in the French camp that followed common-sense, instead of being a chest-thumping hothead. Granted, the King wasn't as bad as it seems, he was under great pressure from the nobles to "act against the invader", even though starving out Black Prince's army would've been the more sensible move.
I would probably commit to an all-out assault on the left flank. Here are the steps. 1. Use my archers to weaken the right flank, tricking them into over guarding their right flank. 2. I would use 1/4 of my knights to make some fancy maneuvers on the right to keep the deceit up. 3. I would commit 3/4 of my infantry to the left flank while keeping the rest as reinforcements or to guard the flanks of the attackers from cavalry charges. 4. I would use 2/3 of the knights in the charge to take out the longbowmen and the Captal de Busch's cavalry. Please tell me if this would work! :)
@@williamtheconqueror7807 No it wouldn't. The right flank of the english was already heavily fortified, and the left had a pretty shallow front (woods directly at their back). In any case the attack was necessary to be along the entire line to avoid envelopement. Probably the knights on the french left flank shoul've been left as reserve because that flank was the only exposed to flanking maneuvers and they weren't that effective on broken ground and against fortified position.
most competent commanders are going to put themselves in harms way to win the day.
@@dsmith377 Weeell, no. Although it could be inspiring it is moronic to behead the army and put the commander in place where he can not command - the front line.
You should have mentioned that before the battle took place a French Cardinal named Helie de Talleyrand tried to broker a truce between the two sides. And during the parley the Black Prince knowing he was in such a dire position had agreed to give the French generous terms from returning all the booty he took in the recent chevauchee, surrender of all forts he had taken during the campaign and even agreed to a seven year truce with the French where he would not go to war with them during that time. But despite such considerable gains, the French king egged on by his proud military advisors refused thinking that the battle was as good as won. And the rest as they say is history.
Welcome to the channel, thanks for watching and commenting. I actually had made a pre-battle sequence with different army positions, which included these negotiations, but the sequence was 3-4 minutes long so I decided to cut it to keep the video around 15minutes long. In hindsight, I could've added a quick card with particular details about the negotiations. However, I did mention two significant facts about the negotiations, which is that the Anglo-Gascons could've easily been starved into submission, and that Clermont wanted to negotiate, even let the invaders starve, but the majority of nobles pressured John into attacking. So I tried to summarize it by focusing on what was central to these negotiations, namely that the hot-headedness of French nobles prevailed, which ultimately lead to their catastrophic defeat.
No worries I just found this channel and have to say you did a really good job in laying out the sequence of battle for Poitiers. I suppose you could have made a part three and just left the last two parts 10 minutes each but I'm not here to criticize.
Instant karma payback for being such an arrogant, noble bastard. In the end it took Joan of Arc motivating the peasants of France to fight back to throw off the English yoke.
Zamolxes77 Did Joan really made the peasants fight back? I thought she only had men at arms and knights.
Ouinn Ouinn Why didn't they revolted when the French king left her to be executed by the English instead of paying the ransom?
That last piece of history at the end of the clip about the attendant accidentally burning Charles of Navarre alive is ghastly! quality content.
Outstanding work sir. Really impressive visuals. I give this a month or so before your subscribers are in the thousands :)
Thank you kindly! Love the work you did over on your channel, great storylines.
"Sigh" The idiot baron, who charged the right flank, should off fell on his sword. The French army had the numbers and logistic advantage. Had he waited for the English to starve, he might of won through attrition
Agreed, typical example of just how harmful hotheadedness can be.
I feel the same way. It kind of pissed me off that this happened. Just such incompetence, and small but rash decisions like that determined the battle before it even began.
yeah all they have to do is to surround the defensive position of the english army,wait for them to starve and attack at the right moment,plus the french army were 2 times more numerous than the english army, the french army fail to excel on this battle...
Even an attack that was actually coordinated would have worked pretty well. The French were defeated in destail thanks to that guys stupidity
"How old are you? Five?"
Wow, this is phenomenal work. I look forward to future videos, keep up the good work.
Welcome to the channel. Glad you liked the video. Next one will be up in roughly 15-20 days.
Amazing work! I love the details you put in describing the landscapes. Describing the lack of communication in the French army was also very interesting and allowed me to understand the battle much better. This channel will soon get the level of recognition it deserves if you keep this level of quality.
My ancestor Sir Ellis Hicks fought and was knighted in this battle, for "capturing French banners", so it is awesome seeing how it all played out and what lead up to it. It's just such a classic story anyway, with the English being outnumbered, feigning retreat and those legendary longbowmen lurking in the forest just waiting to nail the French who followed. Amazing. Thanks for bringing part of my family history to life! 🏇🇫🇷🎯🇬🇧
Thank you kindly for watching. Great to see you enjoyed the videos.
French knight: Charges at English men-at-arms and longbowmen without waiting for orders Why does this sound familiar?
Yeah lol, ney at waterloo
I am new to these videos but I must say they may be my favorite history related video. I love the dialogue (dialogue bubbles) between everybody while the battle is going on. Freaking hilarious! The perfect mixture of humor and knowledge. I would absolutely watch this show on tv if it became a tv series.
Thank you so much for the positive feedback.
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Amazing work, I love the details in the battle maps and animations! Thank you!
New sub - Amazing video, this is truely inspired. Really enjoyed the animation, narration, everything was on point. Loved it!
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I've hit that notify bell and can't wait. :)
Very nice. Suspenseful, cinematic, great work! Finally I understood the Poitiers battle.
Wonderful to see this period covered with your detailed reconstruction of events prior to the battle. Really enjoyed the commentary and walk-through of the chevauchee's. Hoskin's 'In the Steps of the Black Prince' is my go to source on the period and with your animated videos this helps bring the events to life! There are so many fascinating details but I'll add just a couple here; -The Black Prince also began moving his centre south towards the Miosson crossing following on behind Warwick's division and it was upon seeing the standard of the prince moving that spurred the Marshal into action. William Douglas supported Clermont's view that they should not pursue the English retreat with a charge but d'Audrehem went off anyway. Some of Warwick's men-at-arms had already crossed the Miosson when the French cavalry came into contact and had to recross the river to join the melee, which suggests it was more likely a redeployment rather than tactical feint. - The redeploying further south spread the English line and the distance to the English vanguard was significantly further, because of this Clermont's cavalry reached the English lines before d'Audrehem's. Salisbury took the initiative and was first to engage with the French, bringing up his men and reforming the centre to resist Clermont's charge which was bearing down on the Black Prince's division. He reportedly said; "Advance, Sirs in God's name! Since it hath pleased St George that we who were the rear, should now be the front". - With the death of Clermont, William Douglas (presumably with the remaining Scottish contingent) fled the field. The English declined to pursue the French after the Dauphin's division had been forced to retreat, with Suffolk moving among the men and keeping them in order behind the hedgerows. However archers were able to move forward in order to recover arrows, pulling them from the dead or wounded (and presumably despatching any French wounded). - Indeed a great part of the Duke of Orleans division, brother of the King, left the field, along with all of the King's sons except the youngest Philippe. A small part of the Duke's division made a feeble attempt to counter the English but were driven off with the remaining French troops including survivors of the crossbowmen rallying to the king. They advanced in a 'broad and dense body'. - The prince despatched Captal de Buch, 60 men-at-arms and 100 archers to move round behind the French and as he did so all the remaining English along with their longbowmen moved down the slopes towards Jeans advancing division. Following the surrender of the French King fighting continued and many Frenchmen were killed outside the gates of Poitiers which remained close to them.
Wow very nice video, the animation and narration is excellent. Really like the small infoboxes that list the military leaders on each side as well. Keep up the good work.
You know this is one of the few channes that is actually good at making historical battle videos! Keep up the good work :)
Thank you good sir, truly appreciate the compliment.
Amazing content, graphics and narration. It is a crime that you have so few subscribers, your overall quality is greater than some popular history channels. Subscriber n°134 here
Luís Pereira I just discovered him as well. Just as beautifully made as bazbattles! A channel with such a great future!
Yes, these are still my baby steps here on KZhead. Thank you for subscribing Luis!
It's not a crime, he just hasn't had the time to grow
Can't decide if I'm favoring this or Kings and Generals. Both are great
I always love listening to yr programs but for some reason today while enjoying as always I was cracking up like mad listening to those hilarious pop-up sounds indicating the movements of people on the maps or what-have-you!!! A bunch went off sounded like somebody was marching on bubble wrap!!! Yr commentary is always great too & I really enjoyed the occasional snarky stuff snuck in there too! --like we wouldn't catch those ,right??? Please keep up the hard work, I gotta find another to enjoy!!😍
I really like these battle video’s, i just discovered you! I am looking forward to your future vids!
brilliant videos as always. That last bit mentioning charles the bad and the seamstress just cracked me up!!
full of good information and well displayed, thank you very much for your amazing work.
Thank you for watching.
Just discovered your channel and I've already subscribed! Keep up the amazing historical video's and I have no doubt you'll become huge! Much love
Oh and P. S- the attention to detail is amazing! Maybe use different colors to really put emphasis on opposite armies, buuut then again I'm partially colour blind lol. I'm showing your channel to every history buff I know!
I've been playing "Aquitaine" which is an old wargame by the Sandhurst wargames club. It aims to simulate this period of the 100 years war. It's great to get such a comprehensive history of the period and rather horrific to think of the real-world effects our bits of cards are meant to be having on the hapless French. The war rides were a truly unpleasant style of warfare but their impact was dramatic and efficient. It's pretty crazy that a few thousand men could eradicate over 500 villages in a single year.
Glad you liked the video. They eradicated 500 villages within 2-3 months, just during the Chevauchee of 1355. Then further destruction followed in 1356, though on a smaller scale due to other objectives arising.
During the Hundred Years War, most of the English Nobles were of French or Franco-Norman culture and origins (or Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Angevin). When Edward of Woodstock did his rides, he was accompanied more by Gascons (region of south of France), than by pure English.
please continue your excellent work. This 2 videos are great. alot of research went into those and they are very detailed. thanks alot. subbed
Much obliged Mr.Kid! :D
i love how much effort and research you put into these. thank you for this amazing history
Thank you so much for your kind words.
@@HistoryMarche I also greatly admire the effort and research you put into this, which is why I'm baffled that you wouldn't spend 10 minutes finding out how to pronounce at least the key French names. POY-tears? Seriously?
Nice that you have done this without any jingoistic baggage.
Totally worth beeing tiered at work for watching till late night !
Just watched both of your videos. Keep up this quality and you will be just as big as bazbattles and kings and generals. Good luck!
Thank you TDC, you got a pretty nice collection of documentaries over on your channel.
I never liked history growing up, but daaaammmnn , i would of loved it if it was presented this way! Keep up the good work.
thank you buddy. your quality and hard work shows , high five
Love all the details in your retellings.
Thank you kindly. Share the video with your friends if you have a bit of time.
I love the narration, thank you !
Superb content you have here, Mago! I will definitely watch your content from now on!
Thank you sir, and welcome back. I'm glad you weren't disappointed with part 2.
Your presentation was great, although I disagree on how the battle played out. But that's a big debate and the sources are not clear, so that's fine. History is after all educated guesswork. Personally I think the English formed up on the right side of the map you presented, and not along the road. If you look at the map in 'War Cruel and Sharp', I agree with that interpretation. The presentation you did was superb - fantastic to be honest. The details you get from a presentation like this can not be done in a book. It's really something unique.
Receiving such praise truly makes me buzz with enthusiasm, thank you! I will certainly always focus on the quality of the narrative and the fluidity of animations. The Battle of Poitiers mini-series was made back in November/December 2017, while I was still learning to animate. Next video will come out in 9 days and it will feature the Ottomans, and you should notice significant progress in quality (I hope). Early Access to the trailer for the upcoming video can be found on my Patreon page.
Just started watching your videos. They are *gorgeous*. Your maps look amazing. I will delight in watching each one, I can tell.
Thank you sir. Welcome to the channel.
Absolutely fantastic!
Absolutely amazing:D
Love your videos! Amazingly well done.
Amazingly well done indeed, and many thanks for an illuminating documentary, which makes it all the more puzzling that you made no effort to find out how to pronounce any of the French names, which is distracting and confusing. I could understand it if French were an obscure language like Magyar
Thanks god for this channel where battles and campaigns are not oversimplified
This is absolutely fantastic stuff! Keep it up you guys !
Thank you kindly.
This is so clear and well presented. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic work! The graphics are amazing and the entire presentation is terrific.🤘🏆🏆🏆
Thank you so much 😀
Im a new subscriber. guess what? I'm glad I find you in bazbattle vid also watching this makes me feel like I'm alive during the time. love the video for the immersion bro
Thank you for the positive criticism! I'm glad that the narrative had that effect on you.
+HistoryMarche How do you and BazBattles make videos like this? I've been extremely curious for about a year now because of my love for history.
Thanks for an interesting story!
I love the sound effects!
Too nice video of historic events with clear explaining of events thanks 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌🙏🙏🙏
Thanks very informative. I am reading Bernard Cromwell's book 1356 and this helps me understand what was happening. It is historical fiction, very entertaining, Cromwell is a favorite author of minc.
I cannot get enough of these videos!!
Thank you sir.
excellent video, good graphics and narration count me in .
Welcome to the channel, I'm very glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you. Very ihformative.
Thank you for watching.
Great job!
I like how you show what lands what baron controled Btw great video
exellent work carry on
Excellent video.
What a great video. Love it.
Thanks so much!
Great Video!
Thank you kindly.
Brilliant video
I love this kind of stuff! How on Earth did I just find you today?
Never too late :) Welcome to the channel.
Thank you
Great channel, ur the best
Now I'm a subscriber too! Good work!!
Welcome to the channel :)
Very well done
Thank you kindly
great work.
Thank you very much.
You definitely do the best battles of all the yt history cottage industry.
Thank you very much sir. Very nice of you.
It will be very good if you can make a complete series of hundred years' war and the following Burgundian wars.
These videos are very well produced, besides being entertaining and informative.
Thank you kindly.
Hey man, fantastic content! What programs do you use to produce these?
After Effects, Photoshop, along with various 'smaller' apps for drawing/processing graphics and few applications for sound mixing, the list goes on but those are principal applications I use. Are you also into animation? Though I don't have much free time between my job and KZhead, send me a PM if there might be something I can help you with and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Welcome to the channel, I'm glad you like the videos :D
C'est vraiment un travail d'exception , bravo.
Merci.
Good animations and maps. It just seems, for me, that when a battle starts there are too many things going on. Perhaps this is because the dark colour you use, idk. Subbed ;) keep consistently uploading and you will grow ;) history is love man
Thank you for the sub, love of history is why I started the channel! More imporantly, thank you for your criticism, dully noted. I'm still trying to balance my style between a) not having overly simplified battles, and b) not having too complex battle segments that are hard to follow due to the volume of information. In my defense, the actual Battle of Poitiers was a very complex military encounter - something I had to attempt to convey in the video (hopefully my fellow history lovers won't mind re-watching the video if need be). Furthermore, the encounter consisted of many strategic maneuvers and positionings even before the battle itself even started, which I first wrote but had to cut from the script to make the video watchable - but, depending on future voting polls on my Patreon page I might create an extended version to include more details. If you're curious to learn more about the Battle of Potiers 1356, I definitely recommend: Peter Hoskins - In the steps of the Black Prince Clifford J. Rogers - War Cruel and Sharp These two books contradict each other, but provide immense insight into events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the overall English and French strategies. More good reads: David Nicolle - Potiers 1356, The Capture of a King David Green - Battle of Poitiers 1356 Clifford J. Rogers - Wars of Edward III
The UndercoverMan No I don't think there are too many things going on. The details are what makes these videos amazing!
The UndercoverMan agree to disagree the content is top notch
Just as I was writing a reply to your first, the second one arrived, so no harm done, but yes, I am having that problem as well. I've received a notification on the phone but whenever I open it... So I had to read it from Gmail :D I am sorry for prolonging this conversation.
Amazing detail and maps. Can I suggest doing something on the Byzantine Empire? Thank you for such high quality material.
Byzantine Empire is definitely part of our plans.
It's always the french knights man. They are some of history's best warriors, yet can't keep themselves from loosing.
I think there is not only a question of arrogance among the French Knights, but a question of Tradition. In general, France shelters a chivalrous tradition which implies many values, whose the Dantesque Cavalry Charges which imply courage before tactics. In the thirteenth century, it worked well, since the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, the Capetian dynasty is doing very well, and is the most powerful in the Christian world (especially with King "Saint Louis"). It wasn't until the 14th century that things changed, as did tactics. Cavalry charges began to become increasingly unsuccessful and outdated. Where the Plantagenets learned of their heavy defeats in Scotland against Robert de Bruce. The Capetian nobles kept in mind that cavalry charges were still the noblest way of fighting. Suddenly, the tangent was longer and more difficult in France than in England. They were stubborn, but until the end of the Hundred Years War, the French will have learned the lessons of these defeats: the knights will take the Welsh archers by their flanks (Battle of Patay 1429), and will no longer face blindly. And the "Brothers Bureau" will innovate with the Field Artillery which will shelter the English (Battle of Castillon 1453). However, there has been an improvement in military tactics, but at the expense of the nobility of the old cavalry charges, which will be largely ineffective with the arrival of firearms. This will mark the end of medieval chivalry at the beginning of 16th century.
Wonderful account of Poitiers in Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror." Thats a fascinating book about the tumultuous 14th century.
Wow, the Poitiers Campaign is near enough the most perfect operation(s) of the 100 Years War. Massive damage is caused, massive loot is taken and then it climaxed in a decisive battlefield victory with the capture of the French king. Flawless victory! Fatality!
All this is so much more informative than the company I just paid to join damnit. This is excellent, thankyou :)
There should be a timekeeper at one of the corners to record movement and an hourly time display for battles.
I am not new to ae, but, could you link me some tutorials as I really have ideas for something like this. How do you create that "firing arrows" effect and how do you coordinate with all those units, like you create keyframes for each or is there an easier way? What transition do you use for that "cracking" effect when unit is getting destroyed? Which software did you use for the battlefield? Sorry to bother you, but since others failed to respond, I had to ask you
AE?
After Effects
Oh, right. Thanks.
Love the video dude!!! Sub earned!
Thanks for subscribing, stay tuned for the next video.
Without a doubt the bane of French military manuvers throughout history. Over ambitious/early cavalry charges...
very enjoyable and informative (despite horrible pronunciations) with great story telling!
English longbowmen OP. Please nerf.
The longbow was a let down in this battle. It pinged of the French cavalry's armour on the first charge, and barely managed to stop the infantry charge. And then finally it failed against a pseudo-roman tortoise formation the French used at the end of the battle, that the English "wasted" their arrows against, although it was eventually defeated a well timed cavalry charge by the English, but you know what got the credit don't you- the longbow.
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@@projectilequestiontrue but your thinking only in terms of it killing on hitting the knights, the effect of it taking away the mount, keeping the visors down on their helms and the moral effect of being shot five times a minute before, during and after fighting other men-at-arms would have took its toll.
3 TILE RANGE *3 TILE RA-*
projectilequestion Longbowmen proved to be excellent in melee as well though, look at the battle of Agincourt as an example. Pulling back 150 pounds of draw weight with your arms and your back will make you very strong. The skeletons of dead Longbowmen proved this.
Phenomenal
*sigh* I miss the Romans
Why?
@@projectilequestion julius cesar - The Battle of Alesia
Well the Romans were psycho biased on their own recounts. This was a good video lots of interesting and new information. None the less this battle went better for the French than most Historians (being quite ignorant to be honest) want to admit. Only a small part of the French Cavalry attempted a cavalry charge, and when they got near the English lines, they were so well armoured that the arrows either "shattered on impact or glanced off towards the heavens" The French infantry were risk averse and decided to advance on foot. What they did was protect "their bodies with joined shields, and turned their faces to the side, so the archers wasted their quivers in vain" as you can see the French-at-Arms actually dealt with the longbow quite well. But historians don't like to concentrate on that, they prefer to concentrate on the mistake of attacking, rather than the moderately good execution of that plan.
Pompey also fell for the "I bet you won't fight them because you're a coward" taunt from his own allies and foolishly engaged Julius Caesar at Pharsalus even though the latter was already at a disadvantage. All Pompey had to do was wait him out, but Caesar roped him into a brilliant flanking maneuver and utterly destroyed his army
@@TheSecondVersion the black prince must've been a huge fan of Caesar then lol
I believe those reckless charges have cost the French many battles. I remember a similar action of a french contingent cost the Christian army the battle of Nikopolis against the Ottomans. Thank you for the highly qualitative and interesting content. Subbed!
And at Waterloo. And Agincourt.
I love how medieval reconnaissance includes burning and raiding villages
he problem with French chivalry was that they were undisciplined and wanted to fight in the name of the honor code of chivalry which meant fighting face to face and not attacking behind the enemy's back. that the English felt royally indifferent to honor, it was when France, we understood who had to stop fighting for honor, that they began to recover our lands
One of the "best" wars of the middle ages.
Being english ofcourse im always pleased to see these results. Its always heartbraking aswell to watch how we lost all that territory in the end. But yeah this battle was just like us against the Scots at Loudoun hill. They had the numbers, if they'd have used them more wisely with a clear line of communication instead of arrigantly being confident of victory, the result would have been different.
You are pleased that England plundered and burned villages of France, just like the Huns were doing to eastern Europe. Well, perhaps it was still this norman/viking side of England back then.
True. I wonder if we'd have remained a Saxon kingdom if we ever would have made efforts to take territory in France
I can assume the doctors' assistant suffered a ghastly death as well. 😖
Where can you get those battle things Those visuals
Rest in Brandy
Omg LOL. I usually know beforehand all of the jokes that will be told about my videos. But I never saw this one. Gave me a proper laugh haha! Awesome man, awesome!
What a wonderful opportunity to teach them frog... french to speak english.... was MISSED!
The ending text about Charles the Bad getting barbequed by the silly nurse who tried to burn away the thread with a candle while Charles was wrapped in bandages soaked in brandy. Now THAT qualifies as weird history. Any further details on that?
Will you be doing the Siege of Orleans?
So many of the historic battle videos: "Here is 5-45 minutes of historical back story to the battle that don't really need to be seen to appreciate the battle itself. Enjoy wasting your time."
It's a nice video, but a video on lesser known battles towards the end of the war would be welcome too! For all the crowing that goes on with Agincourt and Crecy you'd have thought the English won the war.
This doesn't mention where they tried to retreat to the city of Poitiers who refused to open their gates leaving them exposed.