History of England - Fire and Swords - Part 2 - Extra History

📜 History of England: Fire and Swords - On the 26th of August,1346, Philip's army drew near the English force. The French were strung out for miles. Phillip's best commanders advised caution: put on those comfy jim-jams the Queen gave you last Christmas, don the royal slippers, get a goodnight's snooze, and let everyone catch up, then drown the English in a river of their own blood after a light breakfast. But Phillip looked upon the current puny size of the English army, and ordered the attack anyway...

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by Sean and Dean Kiner

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[extrahistory]

Edward III would impose what he called "fire and sword" on the French countryside, intimidating Phillip VI into a fight he was *pretty sure* he could win...

[UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER]

"edward had a plan" Bismark approves of this

[reAuxal]

*Lands In Normandy*
Ah shit, here we go again

[nocx]

The Holy Roman Emperor being a useless ally?
*gasp* no!

[harrisonlee]

Sharing a glass of wine with a bag of gold is probably something several Holy Roman Emperors did.

[epicfailurecz]

The last words of John the Blind, King of Bohemia were "God forbid the Bohemian king ever flees from battle"

[adamlatosinski]

King John of Bohemia was once challenged to a duel by king Casimir of Poland to a duel for the right to the Polish crown (which was contested at the time). Casimir knew that John is very chivalrous and wouldn't refuse an honorable duel, despite being blind. And he didn't. He just set one small rule. To make the duel fair, Casimir had to gouge out his own eyes.

Casimir backed down.

[jte]

* drunk Sir Arthur of Morgan stumbles into the room *


*"MANNY!"*

[sunjian]

"Those are some nice Knights you got there...be a shame if someone were too..."

**Notches Longbow**

"Remove them"

[wanderingrandomer]

This series is a good example of why I like English humour.

[AbsolXGuardian]

1:57 So when you send gifts and marry off your daughter to create an alliance with a realm in ck2 and then your ally never sends you any troops is historically accurate

[sirrliv]

Major props for giving credit to the Welsh.

[aidancampbell]

French: "hon hon, we have naval superiori-
England: " *no* "

[alejandrokaplan]

Not the last time the Somme would be a challenge for England

[ryaneble]

Edward had a plan

*Heavy Breathing thinking of Bismarck*

[hfar_in_the_sky]

7:20 In defense of the crossbowmen, from what I understand they were supposed to have had pavise shields in order to protect themselves. But because the attack was ordered so hastily, they were forced to leave their shields behind and were thus left without one of their greatest forms of protection against the longbow.

Edit: misspelled pavise as passive.

[CoolDragon]

"Bloody peasants (archers)"
- The French (Probably)

[DragoniteSpam]

Easily the worst part about this is watching all of the cute EH horses getting cut down by arrows. :(

[conagherdenson]

The English: Lessons are meant to be learned here
The French: NOPE

[meanestgreen]

Admiral yi would have beaten that fleet with 3 John boats