Battle of Castillon, 1453 ⚔️ The end of the Hundred Years' War

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

📝 Written by Jonathan Woody

🎼 Music:
Filmstro

Assets credits:
Storyblocks

📚 Sources:
Castillon: Last Battle of the Hundred Years’ War - Warfare History Network - William E. Welsh (2008)
The Agincourt War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1369 to 1453 - Alfred H. Burne (2014)
The Hundred Years War - The English in France 1337 - 1453 - D.Seward (2013)
John Talbot & the War in France, 1427–1453 - A. J. Pollard (2006)
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, (1417-1450) - Juliet Barker

#documentary #history #medieval

[fuferito]

For a veteran fighter with decades of experience behind him, I am baffled that John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury would choose to attack an entrenched position bristling with artillery.

[molybdaen]

Bureau must have been more then happy that somebody really came to test his castle.

[bonhommierr]

Fun fact n°1 : the town's name nowadays is "Castillon la Bataille" (Castillon the Battle).

Fun fact n°2 : if you look up the battle's whereabouts on google maps, you can still spot Jean Bureau's earthworks beneath the vineyards.

Grapes grow where men fought, bled and died.

[dardell]

Never, ever let a master of defense have time to set up a defense.

[LameGeneralissimo]

It seems like Talbot got the concept of "defeat in detail" a little bit backwards.

[earthenjadis]

People talk about Agincourt as a significant battle due to the English longbow, but the bow was essentially thousands of years old and in its final century. While Castillon was a smaller battle, both the political outcome and its impact on modern warfare were much greater. The Age of Artillery had really begun. Almost 500 years later, WW1 looked more like Castillon than Agincourt.

[thierrylofoten]

The French began the 100 years war technically with a "war of delay" against the English. At the end of this long conflict, the French had technically a "war in advance". The English clung to their old tactic of longbow archers which had given them such resounding success, without realizing that the french artillery had become the queen of the battlefields. Great variety of guns with efficient mobility, improved quality of barrels and gunpowder, widespread use of steel cannonsballs, improved aiming systems ... All of that, the English had partially or totally neglected. An army is never so weak as when it thinks itself superior by nature. On the other hand an army is never so strong that, after severe setbacks, it completely challenges itself and reforms technically and tactically.

[fafi]

Each year there is a reenactement of this battle near Castillon-la-bataille (new name for Castillon!) with dozens of actors. That's quite an event in Aquitain, my birthplace. Currently I live in Libourne and I was very please to see your video!
Sorry for bad english and keep going with your channel, big fan for years 👍

[PM-pycy]

Glad to see such battle depicted as usually people remember Agincourt, Crécy or Orléans but not the battle that ended the 100 Year War

[mwvnpvn]

Baffling decision to attack a position like this in any fashion, but in a strategic position like this and numerically inferior, that's insane

[germinallajaunie]

A big thank to HistoryMarche for this video. I remember writing a bitter post one year ago about the continuous storytelling of English victories battles (Azincour ad nauseam..) hiding the fact they loose the 100 years war. I was doubting to see any French victory video and ... it happen! I also learn a lot with this video as in fact I didn't know really about the battle.

[quintusantell]

For all the talk of Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt... the Battle of Castillon reminds me why I love being descended from the French. English Bastards. =]

[MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont]

Thank you for dedicating a video to this decisive battle which marked the end of the Hundred Years' War but also the end of the Middle Ages.

[tbuxt]

This is a criminally untaught portion of the 100 years war. Thank you for shedding some light on it.

[BenjtheStation]

So Talbot needed to defeat 3 armies and flamed out miserably against the smallest one…

[bared]

Just thinking that Bureau's fortification near Castillon lookls like Vauban's one 3 centuries later. Such a genius

[DaHuuudge]

When a military leader is up against a superior force, they have no choice but to try something audacious, unexpected, and a little crazy. Such moves are necessarily risky. When they work, the leader is called a military genius; when they fail, the leader is a fool. This is why I think claims of “military genius” that rest on such outcomes are overstated.

[ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Great video ! Didn’t know much about this battle, this battle is not what I think of when I hear the year 1453

[deino]

As a schoolboy of English and Scottish descent, I was raised on a steady diet of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, over and over and over, supposedly proving the superiority of English arms over French arms. Now, as an old man, I take special delight in reading about the many times the English got their a$$e$ handed to them by the French. Vive la France!

[sevoo]

blown away by the quality of the presentation and the myriad of details 😯