History of England - The Devastation of France - Part 3 - Extra History

📜 History of England: The Devastation of France - From the end of the battle of Crecy, Edward charged on to besiege Calais (successfully), and then returned home. Right about then was when the Black Plague hit Europe head-on. But Edward carried on as king establishing order among his subjects, forming the Knights of the Garter. In France, John le Bel, son of Philip, had learned from the French defeats and was making small victories here and there...

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by Sean and Dean Kiner

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[extrahistory]

In the middle ages, pillaging
and murdering your way across Northern France was clearly considered an appropriate father-son bonding opportunity.
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[kappadestiny]

John's biggest mistake was auto-resolving his battles...

[vicic]

Pillaging France IS the best father-son activity

Just look how good Ragnar son were raised

[AncientAccounts]

Haha take that France - The English
Haha take that France - The French Revolution

[JohnnyElRed]

Someone should had told the French that the knights on foot strategy only works, when you a have a line of longbow archers just behind keeping at bay possible cavalry charges.

[GarlicPudding]

I want that "Queen fake-convinces King to be merciful to save face" bit in Crusader Kings 2!

[gregorywalter]

This is the part where we realize David is an Olympic-level Archer.

[Gala-ypnx]

So Edward III decided to play Good Monarch Bad Monarch with the people of Calais.

[Stilluetto]

*the common soldiers and archers, fine no one cared about them their job was to die*

Damn

[bedflopperstudios]

“Made like brave sir robin”
MONTY PYTHON
This is why I love this show!

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Calais was worth fighting for because of the baguettes

[nelsonchereta]

"We killed a knight!" War is terrible! Return his body to his family and let them know we deeply and sicerely regret the loss of his young life!" "Also, we slaughtered a couple hundred archers and footmen." "Eh, who cares?"

[thechangamire]

Germany: I fought France the longest

England: No, I did!

???: Fools...

Both: What was that?!

France: FOOLS!!!

[harrisonlee]

One of the big results of all this was The War of The Roses, which was somehow crazier than all this.

[robertwalpole]

The Knights of the Underwear vs. The Knights of the Big Ball of Gas. Classy.

[gafeleon]

Of course like a good Brit he takes his longbow and aims at them

[aloof_cardinal]

"the tide was about to turn"
*Du Guesclin just join the game*

[marc]

"No use of Trebuchet" - 3/10

[oliverkeaney]

You guys always make me learn something new and make me smile, please never change!

[CliffCardi]

the tide was about to turn.”

and then Agincourt happened.

“Never mind.”