Battle of Castagnaro, 1387 ⚔ How an English mercenary found fame and fortune in Italy ⚔ Documentary

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎼 Music:
Filmstro

📚 Sources:
Castagnaro 1387 - Hawkwood's Great Victory - by Kelly Devries & Nicollo Capponi (2019)

#medieval #history #documentary

[Swordie]

Very good to see so many of you guys showed up for the defense of Padua, let met brief you on our plan called "your lives for our flank."

Two important lessons can be extracted from this video, that the best European mercenaries of that century were English and French veterans of the Hundred Years' War, and that the only ones who benefited from the conflict were the Milanese. I welcome the fact that you talk about more of the conflict of those times in both Italy and Spain, since there are several interesting battles that are not known, for example the intervention of the Black Prince in the Castilian Civil War, to give an example.

[andrewhuch]

love to see 14th century free companies and John Hawkwood get some coverage from such a great channel! Thank you

[BernardoTorres-we]

The narration was great, the birds eye view of the landscape with its schematized troop movements was great, and the script was even greater .

[macellaio]

Yes please, more Italian battles medieval/Renaissance, such an interesting period

[vitorpereira]

He personally captured the enemy standard after leading a charging. He was badass!

[TheStrategos]

Gian Visconti deserves his own video. A classic scheming Machiavellian.

[agustinfigueroa]

I would pay very good money to see this channel cover the wars of south america. We do not have many military history channels here and theyre all light years from HM. Theyre all such interesting conflicts. I really hope it happens one day

[_Lax_]

For someone interested about John Hawkwood there is a 49 chapters manga about his employment in France and the campaign he joined that ultimately led to the battle of Crecy. The art is excellence, the strategies and military maneuvers were extremely well depicted and so you should check it out now. Unfortunately the manga wasn’t popular or else it would had received a longer runtime. Anyway it is almost like Vinland Saga in term of art but with Medieval France setting, Hawkwood and the Black Prince as the main duo, and the Royal French Army as main antagonists, so what more could one even hope for?

[alarsonious]

Fascinating. What a interesting period of Italian history.

[brokenbridge]

I've heard a lot of interesting things about John Hawkwood. That man had a really adventurous life.

[danielsantiagourtado]

John the astute did indeed become legendary! You're the best man! And please consider making a video on Ferdinand III the Saint of castile and Leon! One of the Reconquista greatest figures!❤❤❤❤❤

[manuelapollo]

Such a good quality video. And, as an Italian, I am impressed by the good Italian pronounciation!

[jonathangaming]

I would love to see more videos on medieval or Renaissance Italy. Such an over looked region

[conchobar]

One of, if not the best history channel on YouTube, everything is spot on in what I love about history documentarys

[DrGoldtoofedApe]

I am so glad I came across this channel! I absolutely love the aesthetic, the content, the music, everything about the presentation is perfection.

[wedgeantillies]

Very intriguing and compelling video. Was great to see a video covering one the key battles, that showed just how import and influential the free companies were in the history of Italian city state conflicts during this period. Plus great Job Paduan leadership in respect of how to throw away the fruits of victory and then get outplayed by the viper in Milan.

[resileaf]

12:00 Imagine being one of those militiamen and realizing only too late that you're just bait and will die to let your commanders make his military maneuver.

[michaelsinger]

John Hawkwood. Classic case of “I play all sides so I always come out on top in the end.”

[ayeejiff]

what a massive blunder woahh . Verona had such a massive reserve but the banner being captured just destroyed the morale