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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
The battle that changed how Medieval warfare was waged. The English used those same tactics throughout the rest of the Hundred Years War to great success...until Joan D'Arc came along and put boot to face. But this battle really decimated the French aristocracy. Some call it the End of Chivalry.
Here's a little painting I did of Joan a while back.
Spoiler:
Sorry, didn't know it was so big.
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Also, check out my history blog: Minimum Wage Historian, a fun place to check out history that often falls between the couch cushions.
The French had a far bigger population and a larger economy, and later French marshals put it to good use.
Eventually the cottoned on to the idea of using pavise crossbowmen with dedicated loaders, this way only one trained expensive mercenary crossbowman was needed per file, with two or three levy loaders each. This way the French could match fire with the English in a cost effective manner.
Jeanne D'Arcs main achievement behind the scenes was to steer the French into using popular forces. The French army was entirely feudal plus mercenary elements as France hand a relatively poor relationship between the classes. In England the relationship was different, mostly because th English weren't invaded enough to become overtired of war. Except by the Scots, who were generally not difficult to crush. The legal system was also different allowing the English yeomanry to feel they had a stake in society, also there was limited but evident upward mobility lacking in France.
Jeanne D'Arc achieved by fervour what the French aristocracy had failed to do by policy, to instill a nationalism in France. The English armies were popular, mostly consisting of yeomanry. Once France was able to field large scale yeoman armies the English were swamped and kicked out of France.
It didn't help that a succession of short lived English kings, mostly notably Henry V himself, plunged the nation into a succession crisis and civil war. Eventually the English lost all their continental lands except Calais, which remained in English hands for another century.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
