How Did France Win the Hundred Years War?

In 1415 Henry V, as seen in the recent Netflix film The King, decisively defeated a large French army at the Battle of Agincourt. In 1419 Henry and an English army invaded again and conquered much of Northern France which they would go on to hold for the next 30+ years. But ultimately the French were victorious in the Hundred Years War, they had Joan of Arc, and such victories as Patay, Formigny and Baugé. Their advanced use of artillery and military reforms helped them to defeat the English in Normandy and Gascony.

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[historywithhilbert]

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[orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft]

Turns out the cannon is stronger than the longbow.

[Gew]

Hilbert: "France won the Hundred Years War."
Lindybeige: "What is this revisionism?!"

[wednesdaynightbusiness]

The multiplayer game was converted from crusader kings to europa universalis after 1444, and the French player was better at europa universalis

[francesco]

1444 is a the most important year in the hundred years war.
Nothing major happened but it's the year when EU4 start so thousand of people know the fucking map better than their own city.

[CrèmeTropBrûlée]

English people : "lmao you need a teenager girl to win"
French people : "still you loose against a teenager girl and when you had her prisonner you have burned her alive"

[valmeysien]

I like how the Hundred Years War illustrates very well key dynamics in West-European history :
- The end of chivalry illustrated with Agincourt in 1415 ;
- The end of middle-age type castles made obsolete by the artillery, illustrated with Castillon in 1453 ;
- The birth of a key aspect of modern statehood with Charles the 7th permanent army, less depending on feodal lords' loyalty ;
- The rise of the national sentiment, or proto-nationalism.

Knights and castles made obsolete, modern statehood replacing feodal military organisation, and the rise of national sentiment : it appears that this war's first casualty was the Middle-Age itself.

[serenisma]

"noooo you cant use cannons and beat us at formingny and Castillon

"haha jean bureau go BRRR

[Eldiran]

"the king" film was so wrong on many ways that, to me, it is like propaganda . they completely change the personnality of the king to make him a young humanist, which he wasn't at all . he was brutal and in fact, he order to kill prisonner against the troops conscent (the troops know they can become prisonner too ). Also the french was not foreigner like they show on the film, the english claim on the french throne was somewhat legit and england was, before the war, technicaly a vasal of france because of normandy . A lot of french are angry against this film and i don't like, as a french myself, this film too .

ps: your french is really good but the s in Arras is not silent (it is an exeption )

[jojuca]

The battle of Patay was so important for French moral that it became the sentence "mettre la patay" who latter became "mettre la patée" (yes the thing you put on a baguette), wich mean someone up..

[EloiFL]

Bro, England didn't lose, they simply did an "indefinite strategic retreat", like their american brothers like to call it or whatever.

[annedebroeck]

Would you consider making a video about the French knight 'Bertrand Du Guesclin'? It's a part of the 100 years war that gets barely any attention. I would love that.

[siretriste]

Fun fact: the battle of Patay has given it's name to a french idiom, in which you can say about someone that you gave him some Patay, meaning a great beating.
That's where the expression "mettre la pâtée" comes from! The spelling has changed since no one knows about Patay, but I imagine we are more knowledgeable about "pâté"

[signum]

The town of Arras follow the exception of french pronunciation, you actually do say the "s" in Arras, same with Reims. Otherwise, great video!

[akas]

I really liked the memes and other sound effects in this! Really shook up the style for the better!

[camille]

"The Hundred years war" followed by "the War of the Roses" marks the end of the Ideology of England being a Land Army Power (like France, HRE etc).
As they turned away from this idea of controlling the continent by brute force of Land Army, they became a Sea Nation instead.

[thatonecharlie]

This was exactly the video I was looking for earlier

[sanjivjhangiani]

One aspect of who wins a long war is that the side that loses early on tends to be willing to innovate. The French had sent knights against the longbow and lost three significant battles. So they were more willing to modernize their weapons and army. This happened in the U.S. Civil War; the Confederates started with a better army, but the Union Army learned from their mistakes.

[medievistecool]

The King is a disaster for historic accuracy in cinema, you can't change my mind

[Perrirodan]

When you think about it, the Hundred Years War was a victory for the English culture because it's losing the conflict that lead the English aristocracy to stop speaking French.
Had the English won and because the French population was so much larger, the aristocracy would not have stopped speaking French. England would have kept being bombarded even more by French influence.

When would the English get independance from "England"?

I find it irronic that England could have ended up being assimilated by the land it would have had conquered.