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@@ferrjuanMedieval life expectancy it's a History channel scam. After surviving infancy a medieval would easily reach is 60s. Many history figures reach they 90s.
Interesting fact, the 6,000 English and Welsh Longbowmen at Crecy could potentially, under periodic sectioned shooting, at the high end volley pace of 10 arrows per man per minute, rain down upon units of the French army as many as 60,000 arrows every 60 seconds. Sent, for a short time, on the minute every minute, truly, an astonishing rate of fire. To put that into some perspective, the volley pace of 10 from 6,000 Longbowmen is equivalent to the per minute 1,500rpm cyclic rate of 40 German MG42s. The more widely used crossbows of the period could, in comparison, loose around 4 to 6 bolts a minute at a maximum effective range of 200 yards. The Longbow could wound and potentially kill, lesser armoured targets, at 300 yards, a range at the time unheard of outside of siege artillery, a truly formidable battlefield weapon.
@MrLoobu Lol indeed, the bullet is more deadly than the arrow. But, the fact that rates of fire such as this could be achieved centuries before the invention of the machine gun, by relatively small groups of archers is outstanding. Such rates of fire on the battlefield from individual units, from the end of bowmenship due to the rise of the firearm were, at least in the west, not seen again for centuries up until perhaps World War 1, 2.
The Black Prince was possibly the most hated character in European history for the next 300 years, so it shows how propaganda works. You wouldn't be so giddy claiming that your ancestors were part of a more recent maniac's retinue.
And its also a good rhing to recognise your brave, reckless ancestors through the changing tides of history! Who was eight/weong, good/ bad, stydy real history to still remain ignorant!@louiss2441
Have you read the PhD thesis and winner of the De Re Military award, the Verbruggen prize: War Cruel and Sharp by Rogers? Edward didn't run. He offered battles again and again. He wanted the French to attack him in a defensive position the way the Scots had done at the Siege of Berwick-upon-Tweed which resulted in the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. That was the plan, and Edward finally managed to provoke such an attack at Crecy. This was the strategy throughout his campaigns.
Running until the situation overwhelmingly favors him. Tactical/Strategic retreating? Either way, clearly the better tactic. Who the hell would send their troops into this absurd defensive posture? Oh wait... WW1 wants its casualties back.
@@bgibeast That's exactly what the Duke of Wellington was famous for. He would find a strong defensive position, knowing the French would attack. When he did go on the offensive, he made sure to stack the deck in his favour.
@@anzaca1 Well look, I'm just a gaming nerd and armchair general. But charging straight into the fangs of machine gun nests with infantry seems like "Things Not to Do 101" in the Army General book. How could people really be so arrogant to just walk up a hill into 6000 archers? XD
@@bgibeastthey were the best of the best knights in Europe, so not very modest AND had seen miles upon miles of destruction that their ennemies had wraught on their land, they must have been calling for blood, still... pretty stupid, especially killing the genoese
Genoese crossbowmen were some of Europe's most sought after ranged mercenaries and what they needed in this situation. Oh, the hybris of not only throwing them away but also slaying your trump card yourself.
The black prince did the job for the enemy, in reality we all know he wussed out and then used obvious propaganda to say that he was amazing and fought 30 times the normal man and saved all the downed soldiers. The same crap we see from sociopaths today.
As a frenchman it is my duty to point out that the final Q in "Montcuq" is silent. And yes, that makes it sound like "My Ass" in french. This is a subject of much rejoicing and laughter among my people.
Love the fact the ostrich 🪶 badge of John was adopted by the Black Prince in honor of the blind Bohemian king’s 🤴 courage and is still used to this day. What lineage.
More famously: "Toho bohdá nebude, aby Český král z boje utíkal!" was the original quote of Bohemian king John during his charge in this battle, can be translated as: "That will not happen, so that Czech king flee from the fight!"
English soldiers: “But you merely adopted the rain. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the sun until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”
Average French failed battles: - Arrive with the army - See the enemy defense is strong - Leaders meet and correctly presume a prudent strategy is the best strategy One of the following: - Our stupid leader becomes arrogant, changes his mind and attacks anyway - One stupid adviser of our stupid leader is arrogant, says he won't wait and attacks anyway thus forcing the leader to launch the attack anyway - The French soldiers become arrogant, saying they will attack anyway thus forcing the leader to launch the attack anyway - Défaite prévisible I can add for WWII this in the following choices: - English leaders are stupid, say they will not move out of the north of France cos that's where ports that are important to them are, Germans don't care about the ports, trap the two armies there and rush for the capital Paris, France politics surrender when German soldiers knock on their doors. This one is not (mainly) on us !
It was an informative and a great historical coverage video about that periods of sever competition and several military striking between French and British on French sovereigns... thank you for an excellent (History Marche) channel for sharing this magnificent video .
I did archery for years, and the most scary thing I experienced, was a fellow following me, on a field shoot with a long bow, with heavy arrows. To hear them wooshing down the shoot, as I moved away from target made me double up and get away ASAP! Peace and goodwill
Until the rifle was invented, the longbow was the most deadly hand-held ranged weapon on any battlefield. A fight between longbowmen and Mongol horse archers would be an interesting hypothetical to game out.
Have you heard of the pike? Encounters between the _Landsknechten_ and the _Reisläufer_ were blood baths, as both sides had a 'no quarter ask nor given' policy.
@@OlaftheFlashy The french supply line was shit causing the Genoese to lack of ammo and shield, they also have to fire in the rain making the string useless. French in medieval have shit tactic and then they did it again in ww2
To start, I have been watching you channel for very very long time, easy over a year. I really enjoy how you put it in easy to follow ect. THANK YOU, YOUR TEAM HANDS DOWN HAS INFORMED THE WORLD. know so many after reading my comment will think, this man WTH. Am I just wrong?? Lol I do enjoy listening about warriors during this time. It seems France rarely won very important battles against the English. I know parts of France was England and just flip flop threw hundreds of years of waring. France out numbering, better & more food which is so important in war, better rest, many of the blood lines (for example VIKINGS & many more known warrior tribes, regions threw out now Europe) are the same or very close. I can keep going. How did the French lose so many important battles?? France had total bad butt warriors threw out time. It boggles my brain. If any thought just leave in comment section. Thank you
Gotta be one of the dumbest charges in history. They killed their own men Charged Cavalry into potholes Charged Cavalry int literal organ guns Charged Cavalry into elevated bows Charged Calvary while separated
Seriously, seeing pot holes + tons of longbows on a hill is a recipe for disaster. And your solution is just to charge with no other strategy? This battle couldn't have been commanded any worse from the French side.
Something I find fascinating is that the French never learn from their own arrogance and it causes high losses on their part. Crecy, Agincourt and many other example on the 100 years war alone. They even did it when Western Europe send a crusader force to help Hungry against the Ottomans and the wanted command of the Army even though the King of Hungry had experience fighting the Turks. The French Nobility made us loose then against the Turks. Thank you HM for another amazing video.
They learn from their arrogance, you only had to check what happened between Poitiers in 1356 and Azincourt in 1415 and why Edward 3 had in theory half of france after Poitiers while Henry 5 only had Bordeaux, Bayonne and Calais before Azincourt.
But in all seriousness, when learning about history, it’s best not to insult an entire nation and point score. History is there and none of us alive today contributed to what happened. Just discuss the facts of what happened without getting into silly arguments
That I find morbidly funny is that this battle might be the only one in history where the attacking army delt out my casualties to itself than there opponents.
this video was truly magnific and had me glued to the screen. The English under The Black Prince were monsters in battle, and i would of hated to face them in the field. Thanks HistoryMarche for these AMAZING videos!
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont Those two aren’t the only English victories in the 100 Years War. And France didn’t lose only because Henry V died. Otherwise, the war would have ended sooner.
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko The lancastrians still winning even after Henry 5 death so he wasn't the reason for their loss but instead, it was the civil war between 1407 and 1435 and Charles 6 madness that give Henry 5 then Bedford the edge
I’m not French but WTF is with French military command during this period? The monumental stupidity of their tactics cost their armies countless defeats. Even with superior numbers and supply. It’s mind boggling.
The english started to massively used the longbowmen in the early 1330's sothe tactics about defensive high ground with archers was new. Another reason why Crecy was unavoidable is that Philippe 6 avoid the fight with Edward 3 in 1340 and the nobles resent him for that so he doesn't have the choice. The harsh winter from 1315-1317 made the peasants move to cities so nobles had less money for taxes and had to gain it with ransom in war.
@@robert-surcouf yea, but dont the French make the same basic mistake 70 or so years later at Agincourt? "The english started to massively used the longbowmen in the early 1330's sothe tactics about defensive high ground with archers was new."
@@alexsmart5452 The Valois indeed made the same mistake at Azincourt but not for the same reasons. Since 1392, the king of france (Charles 6) become mad and until 1407, the kingdom was basically ruled by the queen and the king's brother (Louis of Orleans). In 1407, the king's brother was murdered by their cousin, the duke of Burgundy and that started a civil war between burgundians and armagnacs that ended in 1435. In 1415, the Valois army at Azincourt was a gathering of peoples that fight and killed each other for 8 years and without a clear leader (the king was lost and the 3 princes were too young) and the commanders disagreed each other but at the end, the one in command was Louis of Orleans' son and despite the older ones advices, choose the front charge. Another problem at Azincourt is that the younger ones had not lived the war by themselves (there was a peace between 1389 and 1415) while the older ones had seen only success in 1370's and 1380's and the lessons learned after Crecy and Poitiers were already forgotten.
It seems to be their military culture. They had so many defeat because they kept attack and attack. Basically it took WWI to cut majority of "elan" out
@@alexsmart5452 The way I understand it, they were in a catch 22 at Agincourt - either they attack at a well-defended position with little to no ability to flank due to terrain, in bad weather - or they don't and let Henry V escape. Had the French won, much of the early advantage the English had during that period would've been negated.
He was already 46 and the Plantagenet were already at the losing end but he could prepared his son for the future and avoid all the civil conflicts in the 15th century.
@@kyledabearsfan As long as Woodstcok could ruled for 10 years, he will be able to teach his son, gave him a good marriage for england and put the lancasters in check. Richard 2 will not be overthrown and there will not be 3 new dynasties and a civil war in the 15th century or a new war in france. It's also possible that Richard 2 will still be overthrown nevertheless but later and Richard could also be childless. Maybe the current england royal dynasty will still be the plantagenet
Michael Livingston's recent book Crecy: Battle of Five Kings proposes that the traditional site (shown here) is wrong. He has been on the ground and proposes an alternate site that is a better fit with what we know. It is worth considering a revision to this video for such an important battle.
Philip VI and his outrageous tactics, including Genoese with no shields given command to attack on their own and lately smashed by their own cavalry should given a title of the most stupid tactics in medieval history.
It was a failure of leadership. They were disorganized, undisciplined, and arrogant. They were not able to organize in a united front. Just several groups doing their own thing trying to get the glory is doomed to fail unless they get extremely lucky.
Great video. I love your channel and particularly enjoy your medieval episodes, including the recent Hundred Year's War videos. But I would recommend reading Michael Livingston's brilliant book, "Crecy: Battle of Five Kings". He presents a different version of events that casts a different light on the role that the Black Prince played in the battle. No doubt he would grow into a feared warrior and military commander, but I think Livingston's interpretation of events based on his own research is perhaps more likely than what has been presented in this video based on Geoffrey le Baker's fanciful account. It would be good to present different interpretations or versions of events in your videos! :)
If you guys would like to see more action of the Crecy campaign, I’d gladly recommend Tommy Otsuka’s manga Hawkwood which takes place at the start of the English invasion of Normandy and ends after the Siege of Calais (last major action of this campaign). The manga deals in some of the most interesting aspects of Medieval warfare like the Code of Chilvary, ransom, mercenary, knightly honor, logistic in war and the dominant class of knight aka the ruling class at the time. The author went into great details about every major events and minor decisions throughout the campaign so it is not simply a hack n slash no brainer experience but rather contain plenty of entertainment! (yeah last past was inspired by kcd). Anyway go check it out now b4 you forget the name Hawkwood since its truly one of the most underrated and least mentioned work of our time :)
@@eelchiong6709 they were allies. John's son Charles (the future king of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Emperor) was also present. Charles was raised at the French court. Also John was old, losing his eye-sight and wanted to fight one more time and die honorably in battle.
@@eelchiong6709 He was called absentee king, because most of his reign he spent fighting in foreign wars. He was born in Luxemburg, so he didn’t feel connected to Bohemia. He did expand Bohemian lands, though. His last words were: "Far be it that the King of Bohemia should run away. Instead, take me to the place where the noise of the battle is the loudest. The Lord will be with us. Nothing to fear. Just take good care of my son." But his son, Charles IV. became like the most important Bohemian/Czech ruler ever. Thanks to the upbringing John arranged for him.
Crazy how Alencon lost a count at crecy and a duke at agincourt. Pretty sure that would be the father and son of Ben Afflecks character in the last duel.
I never knew about the digging of potholes in front of the troops (as being a hinderance to the cavalry). I love the narration, the pronouncitation of the French cities is so Cool.
The Battle of Crecy posed a significant challenge for the French forces as they were already physically drained from their long march, and to make matters worse, they had to conquer a steep hill before they could engage the British troops. The British longbowmen, renowned for their skill and prowess in combat, were a formidable force to reckon with during this period. These highly trained archers had been honing their craft since childhood, mastering the art of using the longbow with exceptional precision. Surprisingly, the French seemed to have neglected learning any valuable lessons from their encounters with the British longbowmen in the past. Instead, they stubbornly persisted in adopting the same outdated tactics, only to be met with the same predictable outcome of defeat.
The last words attributed to Jan of Luxemburg, blind at the time of the battle, are: „Deus dabit illud non erit ut fugeret rex Bohemie a pugna“ in Latin (as recorded in Cronica ecclesiae Pragensis) „God grant that it will not be that the king of Bohemia flees from battle.“ in English or „Toho Boh dá nebude, aby český král z boje utekl.“ in Czech.
I always cheer on the English side, as I am an Anglo-Saxon American and this is my history, while watching these types of videos, but when the Black Prince is involved I can't seem to make myself do it.
I've been so lucky to discover that I have many ancestors English and Welsh whom fought at crecy and poitiers , one of whom was Einion ap Ithael , of Rhiwaedog Bala he was the black princes bodyguard , descended from Rhirid Flaidd the wolf 😮
'Clout' is a Form of Archery still practiced today. It's Great Fun, a Flag is placed at a Distance and Every Archer try's to hit Said Flag or Marker. To See and Loose the Arrows on Mass. It Sent Shivers up my Spine, every time. And Everyone envolved, had/have Massive smiles on their Faces..! It feels like the 'True Point of Archery..!' Cheers All. 😎
Oh man… have you ever explored EpicHistoryTV’s channel? I’ve always just assumed that no one else wants to touch the Napoleonic era because of how incredibly well done and comprehensive EpicHistory’s channel is on him particular.
"Witness our too much memorable shame. When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captiv’d by the hand Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing, Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun, Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him, Mangle the work of nature and deface The patterns that by God and by French fathers Had twenty years been made. This is a stem Of that victorious stock; and let us fear The native mightiness and fate of him" -William Shakespeare, Henry V
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont It was mainly celebrated because of the huge power difference between England and France, historically France was the main power of Europe due to its huge population compared to most other feudal kingdoms, ie England had 3-4x less people.
@@robert-surcouf To a degree yes, but it’s debatable if England could truly use the French man power outside of a few loyal regions like Gascony and Britanny. Many garrisons within English France were manned by English/welsh and even German troops.
@@Yellow-kp9gs Brittany wasn't part of france until 1532 and the relationship between Brittany and England was rather up and down after 1364 but they became real ennemis only after 1435. In Gascony, the garrisons was held by gascons too and many of them fought since the beginning until the end like Poitiers (1356) or Castillon (1453). Flanders were rather ally between 1340 and 1380 then 1419 and 1435 and neutral for the remaining time and outside of Calais, there was not any real garrison. Burgundy was ally betwwen 1419 and 1435 and the duke owned Flanders since 1384 so english garrison in this regions were useless. For Normandy, Charles of Navarre owned half of it so england had security between 1350 and 1370 but they indeed had to made garrisons between 1415 and 1453. For the Poitou, many nobles were loyals to Edward because of business affairs and after Bretigny, fight for him in the 1360's and 1370's. For the Rouergue, Armagnac, Bearn or Perigord, their loyalty after Bretigny were indeed doubtful but mostly because Edward of Woodstock tax them too heavily after Najera. I can agree that England/Plantagenet/Lancaster can't always the man power for these duchy/county but it's also true for France/Valois and this is why the numbers were never worse than 1vs2 instead of 1vs5
As a point of history, I heard that the 👍 thumbs up sign came from English bowmen? They use the measure to confirm the tightness of the longbow. Any questions?
As far as I know; not the thumb-up (that's from the Roman era), but the V-sign (reversed): bowmen use index + middle fingers for gripping arrows and before the battle French threatened to Englishmen that will cut off their fingers to permanently disable them. But Englishmen were victorious, and afterwards become popular to mocking the French by shoving them those two fingers (with fist turned to owner in distinguish to a famous Churchill's V(ictory)-sign). Later that become universal mocking gesture in English folklore. But that was aftermath of the another one battle in a Hundred years war (if I recall correctly), at Crecy no quarter was ordered on both sides - so no prisoners with fingers to cut.
erm WELSH bowmen were the experts of the day , the English longbow was a direct copy of the Welsh longbow , Welsh archers lived by longbow , English longbowmen not as experienced
I call the BS on the longbow rate of fire. Useful shooting in combat is nothing like sport Speedshooting. In combat you would need to take into consideration staving of fatigue by keeping steady, not overly taxing pace. Also arrow supplies are not infinite and most likely only part of them are immediately available with the rest needing to be brought to the fighting position from supply carts. Also a big chunk of the why field fortifications and obstacles were built is slowing the enemy advance to allow ranged weapons to strike at exposed and slowed targets. No need to fatigue yourself with speed shooting, when enemy advance is slowed by 20 meters deep field of obstacles and you are behind some nice cozy field fortifications.
You are right. Mark Stretton can shoot 11 arrows in 1 min, but that will leave him exhausted. Continuous shooting would be 6 arrow per min, but even that is hard without a break. Longbowmen waited and shot arrows from close range and then took a pause until the next wave of attack came in.
The longbow also had a ridiculous amount of physical effort involved. It seems ridiculous that the longbowmen wouldn't fatigue after a few minutes of firing at such a rate.
Yes, pulling a warbow is similar to doing a one arm dumbell row with a very heavy weight while holding a somewhat ligter dumbell out with a straight arm infront of you. Your delts, triceps, and forearms will start shaking due to lactic acid buildup and musclefiber fatigue, so of course your repetition speed is going to slow down after a short while, eventually you will be hard pressed to pull that bowstring all the way back, or likely have to rest for several minutes until enough energy can be re-generated for a couple of more pulls on the bowstring.
remember guys, no leaking of classified documents to this episode sponsor,even they are not amused as for the subject of the video... France did an oopsie again and England banked on it, as it always happened in this war, even if it's England who had the most oopsies
Awesome video wasn't it the count of alencon not Duke, I know later like agincourt times it was Duke of alencon. The writing on the map telling each person's name says count. Not nitpicking just curious love the channel 😊
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The legend was before this. Edward won his victory at Halidon Hill with Archers
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Ah, now I understand the state of my local roads; they're to deter French cavalry charges.
Ahaha where u from mate
Better safe than sorry. You know, based on a statistical analysis of history, it's highly probable that England's next war will be against France.
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The Black Prince was 16 years old at Crecy. The age we leave school in the UK and he was holding the line aainst French cavalry.
I mean he was a prince
Most 16 year olds don't have a vassal army at their beck and call.
Back then being 16 years old was old enough to be called a man since life expectancy in the medieval period was very short compared to today.
@@ferrjuan Very good point, he died aged 35.
@@ferrjuanMedieval life expectancy it's a History channel scam. After surviving infancy a medieval would easily reach is 60s. Many history figures reach they 90s.
Interesting fact, the 6,000 English and Welsh Longbowmen at Crecy could potentially, under periodic sectioned shooting, at the high end volley pace of 10 arrows per man per minute, rain down upon units of the French army as many as 60,000 arrows every 60 seconds. Sent, for a short time, on the minute every minute, truly, an astonishing rate of fire. To put that into some perspective, the volley pace of 10 from 6,000 Longbowmen is equivalent to the per minute 1,500rpm cyclic rate of 40 German MG42s. The more widely used crossbows of the period could, in comparison, loose around 4 to 6 bolts a minute at a maximum effective range of 200 yards. The Longbow could wound and potentially kill, lesser armoured targets, at 300 yards, a range at the time unheard of outside of siege artillery, a truly formidable battlefield weapon.
That is wild to consider. The major difference being that the 40 mgs would kill everyone facing them in the first minute lol.
Is this true?
@MrLoobu Lol indeed, the bullet is more deadly than the arrow. But, the fact that rates of fire such as this could be achieved centuries before the invention of the machine gun, by relatively small groups of archers is outstanding. Such rates of fire on the battlefield from individual units, from the end of bowmenship due to the rise of the firearm were, at least in the west, not seen again for centuries up until perhaps World War 1, 2.
The Longbow had been in use since the Battle of Falkirk against William Wallace
Think of the logistics required to supply hundreds of thousands of arrows over hundreds of miles of campaigning.
Love that you add the human element to your videos like the Black Prince adopting John's banner as his own out of respect.
One of my ancestors was actually apart of the black princes retinue. Gerad Derhodes was his name. He was one of his bodyguards
Wow! Love that 👍
one of my ancestors broke the most rocks with his head of any man in the village. 1 rock. he died
The Black Prince was possibly the most hated character in European history for the next 300 years, so it shows how propaganda works. You wouldn't be so giddy claiming that your ancestors were part of a more recent maniac's retinue.
And its also a good rhing to recognise your brave, reckless ancestors through the changing tides of history!
Who was eight/weong, good/ bad, stydy real history to still remain ignorant!@louiss2441
Have you read the PhD thesis and winner of the De Re Military award, the Verbruggen prize: War Cruel and Sharp by Rogers? Edward didn't run. He offered battles again and again. He wanted the French to attack him in a defensive position the way the Scots had done at the Siege of Berwick-upon-Tweed which resulted in the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. That was the plan, and Edward finally managed to provoke such an attack at Crecy. This was the strategy throughout his campaigns.
Running until the situation overwhelmingly favors him. Tactical/Strategic retreating? Either way, clearly the better tactic. Who the hell would send their troops into this absurd defensive posture? Oh wait... WW1 wants its casualties back.
@@bgibeast That's exactly what the Duke of Wellington was famous for. He would find a strong defensive position, knowing the French would attack. When he did go on the offensive, he made sure to stack the deck in his favour.
@@anzaca1 Well look, I'm just a gaming nerd and armchair general. But charging straight into the fangs of machine gun nests with infantry seems like "Things Not to Do 101" in the Army General book. How could people really be so arrogant to just walk up a hill into 6000 archers? XD
@@bgibeastthey were the best of the best knights in Europe, so not very modest AND had seen miles upon miles of destruction that their ennemies had wraught on their land, they must have been calling for blood, still... pretty stupid, especially killing the genoese
@@bgibeast It's the Fr*nch nobility. They aren't known for their humility and intelligence.
Feel bad for the genoese because they're ordered to charge with no shield and then got crushed by their own allies
Yeah, that was bullshit.
It was a war crime and helped the enemy win the battle
Genoese crossbowmen were some of Europe's most sought after ranged mercenaries and what they needed in this situation.
Oh, the hybris of not only throwing them away but also slaying your trump card yourself.
@@Drayran hubris*
The black prince did the job for the enemy, in reality we all know he wussed out and then used obvious propaganda to say that he was amazing and fought 30 times the normal man and saved all the downed soldiers. The same crap we see from sociopaths today.
Amazing how the longbow changed warfare, the construction of yew, goat bones, twine and resins all adds up to a lethal weapon.
And the mandate for all British lads to train. It gave only the British the ability to use the weapons- It's like something out of Judge Dread.
As a frenchman it is my duty to point out that the final Q in "Montcuq" is silent.
And yes, that makes it sound like "My Ass" in french. This is a subject of much rejoicing and laughter among my people.
Ah, the French version of Uranus.
@@antred11 something like that, yeah 😁
@@antred11 Can you see it?
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Was that deliberate or just a happy coincidence.
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The Knights Of The Garter’s portraits were so unique and good looking, Henry of Grosmont is a documentary I’m waiting for😤😤
Love the fact the ostrich 🪶 badge of John was adopted by the Black Prince in honor of the blind Bohemian king’s 🤴 courage and is still used to this day. What lineage.
More famously: "Toho bohdá nebude, aby Český král z boje utíkal!" was the original quote of Bohemian king John during his charge in this battle, can be translated as: "That will not happen, so that Czech king flee from the fight!"
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The black prince was a fierce warrior, such a shame he died before he could be king
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when your total war battle start off really bad and then you just keep experimenting stuff to see how bad it can go
Lmao that’s a good one
"Heaven help me, but I want him to have ALL the glory."
Average French battle:
-Arrive with 10,000 more men at arms
-Charge
-Rain
-Die
-???
-Win the war?
English soldiers: “But you merely adopted the rain. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the sun until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”
Average French failed battles:
- Arrive with the army
- See the enemy defense is strong
- Leaders meet and correctly presume a prudent strategy is the best strategy
One of the following:
- Our stupid leader becomes arrogant, changes his mind and attacks anyway
- One stupid adviser of our stupid leader is arrogant, says he won't wait and attacks anyway thus forcing the leader to launch the attack anyway
- The French soldiers become arrogant, saying they will attack anyway thus forcing the leader to launch the attack anyway
- Défaite prévisible
I can add for WWII this in the following choices:
- English leaders are stupid, say they will not move out of the north of France cos that's where ports that are important to them are, Germans don't care about the ports, trap the two armies there and rush for the capital Paris, France politics surrender when German soldiers knock on their doors. This one is not (mainly) on us !
@@stevelebreton3489*cough* Maginot Line *cough, cough*
could also add "stand, wait, watch friends die, then begin march"
Until ... enter Napoleon
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Great video! Crecy is one of the most fascinating battles of all history, IMO. Well covered!
Excellent work, well done! This is probably the best video on Crecy on the internet
Toho bohdá nebude aby český král z boje utíkal ( The king of Bohemia will never run from battle) Jan Lucemburský ( John of Bohemia )
It was an informative and a great historical coverage video about that periods of sever competition and several military striking between French and British on French sovereigns... thank you for an excellent (History Marche) channel for sharing this magnificent video .
27:39 Toho bohdá nebude, aby český král z boje utíkal!
Frankofil, ktorého Česká nobilita nenávidela. Jako nic moc král.
I did archery for years, and the most scary thing I experienced, was a fellow following me, on a field shoot with a long bow, with heavy arrows. To hear them wooshing down the shoot, as I moved away from target made me double up and get away ASAP! Peace and goodwill
Great great video! Makes the history really enjoyable to watch and hear. Top shelf work.
Actually my favorite history-war maps channel.
The tomb of Edward, the Black Prince is in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, in Kent,
The Black Prince Died 1376 from dysentery aged 45
Another great video HM! loving this series!
Until the rifle was invented, the longbow was the most deadly hand-held ranged weapon on any battlefield.
A fight between longbowmen and Mongol horse archers would be an interesting hypothetical to game out.
Have you heard of the pike? Encounters between the _Landsknechten_ and the _Reisläufer_ were blood baths, as both sides had a 'no quarter ask nor given' policy.
@@marcmonnerat4850Longbowmen countered pikes well, firearms were necessary to stop bow units from destroying pike formations
Pr Edward: "Poor predictable French, always choose cavalry charge."
The French: "Good old cavalry charge, nothing beats that."
Let's go with no shields! What's the worse that can happen?
Get riddled by arrows?
@@eelchiong6709 Pretty sure they took heavier losses from french cavalry than english longbowmen.
"Nah, let's not unpack the pavises, it's two hours to sunset and going to rain. Not even our French paymasters are so mad or stupid to attack now."
@@OlaftheFlashy The pavises weren't available for the unpacking, they were in the baggage train, trailing behind the army.
@@OlaftheFlashy The french supply line was shit causing the Genoese to lack of ammo and shield, they also have to fire in the rain making the string useless. French in medieval have shit tactic and then they did it again in ww2
To start, I have been watching you channel for very very long time, easy over a year. I really enjoy how you put it in easy to follow ect. THANK YOU, YOUR TEAM HANDS DOWN HAS INFORMED THE WORLD. know so many after reading my comment will think, this man WTH. Am I just wrong?? Lol I do enjoy listening about warriors during this time. It seems France rarely won very important battles against the English. I know parts of France was England and just flip flop threw hundreds of years of waring. France out numbering, better & more food which is so important in war, better rest, many of the blood lines (for example VIKINGS & many more known warrior tribes, regions threw out now Europe) are the same or very close. I can keep going. How did the French lose so many important battles?? France had total bad butt warriors threw out time. It boggles my brain. If any thought just leave in comment section. Thank you
Wow, thanks so much. Truly appreciate the kind words.
The skies must've literally gone semi-dark under the arrow onslaught.
Well narrated and good visuals.
Oh Boy i have been waiting for this!
Gotta be one of the dumbest charges in history.
They killed their own men
Charged Cavalry into potholes
Charged Cavalry int literal organ guns
Charged Cavalry into elevated bows
Charged Calvary while separated
They couldn't done it better even if they wanted to lose the battle.
But have you considered "We're the best fuckin Calvary in Europe so, fuck it, let's do it anyway." (In a haughty French accent)
Seriously, seeing pot holes + tons of longbows on a hill is a recipe for disaster. And your solution is just to charge with no other strategy? This battle couldn't have been commanded any worse from the French side.
@joshbeckett9255.........also, add "Plckett's Charge!"....... dumb and dumber!!
Something I find fascinating is that the French never learn from their own arrogance and it causes high losses on their part. Crecy, Agincourt and many other example on the 100 years war alone. They even did it when Western Europe send a crusader force to help Hungry against the Ottomans and the wanted command of the Army even though the King of Hungry had experience fighting the Turks. The French Nobility made us loose then against the Turks. Thank you HM for another amazing video.
They learn from their arrogance, you only had to check what happened between Poitiers in 1356 and Azincourt in 1415 and why Edward 3 had in theory half of france after Poitiers while Henry 5 only had Bordeaux, Bayonne and Calais before Azincourt.
if they never learn, how did they destroy the English at Patay, La Brossiniere, Formigny or Patay?
@@seigneurcanardo7030Sorry, as an Englishman I’ve never heard of those places or battles 😂
But in all seriousness, when learning about history, it’s best not to insult an entire nation and point score. History is there and none of us alive today contributed to what happened.
Just discuss the facts of what happened without getting into silly arguments
@@tomben6180 never ever? and Cocherel, Saint Omer, Castillon, Pontvallain?
Hilarious, great video !
That I find morbidly funny is that this battle might be the only one in history where the attacking army delt out my casualties to itself than there opponents.
this video was truly magnific and had me glued to the screen. The English under The Black Prince were monsters in battle, and i would of hated to face them in the field. Thanks HistoryMarche for these AMAZING videos!
The English archers were still defeated by the French. The Hundred Years' War is not limited to Crécy or Agincourt.
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramontgot your arse kicked at potiers as well
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont
Those two aren’t the only English victories in the 100 Years War.
And France didn’t lose only because Henry V died. Otherwise, the war would have ended sooner.
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko The lancastrians still winning even after Henry 5 death so he wasn't the reason for their loss but instead, it was the civil war between 1407 and 1435 and Charles 6 madness that give Henry 5 then Bedford the edge
Do you know how they killed? You wouldn't think so highly of them then.
I’m not French but WTF is with French military command during this period? The monumental stupidity of their tactics cost their armies countless defeats. Even with superior numbers and supply. It’s mind boggling.
The english started to massively used the longbowmen in the early 1330's sothe tactics about defensive high ground with archers was new.
Another reason why Crecy was unavoidable is that Philippe 6 avoid the fight with Edward 3 in 1340 and the nobles resent him for that so he doesn't have the choice.
The harsh winter from 1315-1317 made the peasants move to cities so nobles had less money for taxes and had to gain it with ransom in war.
@@robert-surcouf yea, but dont the French make the same basic mistake 70 or so years later at Agincourt?
"The english started to massively used the longbowmen in the early 1330's sothe tactics about defensive high ground with archers was new."
@@alexsmart5452 The Valois indeed made the same mistake at Azincourt but not for the same reasons.
Since 1392, the king of france (Charles 6) become mad and until 1407, the kingdom was basically ruled by the queen and the king's brother (Louis of Orleans).
In 1407, the king's brother was murdered by their cousin, the duke of Burgundy and that started a civil war between burgundians and armagnacs that ended in 1435.
In 1415, the Valois army at Azincourt was a gathering of peoples that fight and killed each other for 8 years and without a clear leader (the king was lost and the 3 princes were too young) and the commanders disagreed each other but at the end, the one in command was Louis of Orleans' son and despite the older ones advices, choose the front charge.
Another problem at Azincourt is that the younger ones had not lived the war by themselves (there was a peace between 1389 and 1415) while the older ones had seen only success in 1370's and 1380's and the lessons learned after Crecy and Poitiers were already forgotten.
It seems to be their military culture. They had so many defeat because they kept attack and attack. Basically it took WWI to cut majority of "elan" out
@@alexsmart5452 The way I understand it, they were in a catch 22 at Agincourt - either they attack at a well-defended position with little to no ability to flank due to terrain, in bad weather - or they don't and let Henry V escape. Had the French won, much of the early advantage the English had during that period would've been negated.
Yesterday Brilliant. Thank you for passing your knowledge on to us .
Thanks for the video🎉
Battle of Patay should be next
Very informative and detailed💖💖💖
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The black prince would have made a great king after his father but it said he died before he could become king
...almost like his death was planned...
He was already 46 and the Plantagenet were already at the losing end but he could prepared his son for the future and avoid all the civil conflicts in the 15th century.
@robert-surcouf in an alternate history, they avoid a lot of the wars and end up more stable? Could be a fun thought process to undertake.
@@kyledabearsfan As long as Woodstcok could ruled for 10 years, he will be able to teach his son, gave him a good marriage for england and put the lancasters in check.
Richard 2 will not be overthrown and there will not be 3 new dynasties and a civil war in the 15th century or a new war in france.
It's also possible that Richard 2 will still be overthrown nevertheless but later and Richard could also be childless.
Maybe the current england royal dynasty will still be the plantagenet
@@robert-surcoufOr Stewart
Michael Livingston's recent book Crecy: Battle of Five Kings proposes that the traditional site (shown here) is wrong. He has been on the ground and proposes an alternate site that is a better fit with what we know. It is worth considering a revision to this video for such an important battle.
Thank you.
The new thumpnail is EPIC! And fitting!🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹
Its hard to beat an enemy who can strike you down before you can even reach him.
Incredible history!
Hi, great video thank you.
Philip VI and his outrageous tactics, including Genoese with no shields given command to attack on their own and lately smashed by their own cavalry should given a title of the most stupid tactics in medieval history.
It was a failure of leadership. They were disorganized, undisciplined, and arrogant. They were not able to organize in a united front. Just several groups doing their own thing trying to get the glory is doomed to fail unless they get extremely lucky.
One remark, I doubt that Gascony would import corn, as that was hundreds of years away of discovery in the Americas.
Great video. I love your channel and particularly enjoy your medieval episodes, including the recent Hundred Year's War videos. But I would recommend reading Michael Livingston's brilliant book, "Crecy: Battle of Five Kings". He presents a different version of events that casts a different light on the role that the Black Prince played in the battle. No doubt he would grow into a feared warrior and military commander, but I think Livingston's interpretation of events based on his own research is perhaps more likely than what has been presented in this video based on Geoffrey le Baker's fanciful account. It would be good to present different interpretations or versions of events in your videos! :)
If you guys would like to see more action of the Crecy campaign, I’d gladly recommend Tommy Otsuka’s manga Hawkwood which takes place at the start of the English invasion of Normandy and ends after the Siege of Calais (last major action of this campaign). The manga deals in some of the most interesting aspects of Medieval warfare like the Code of Chilvary, ransom, mercenary, knightly honor, logistic in war and the dominant class of knight aka the ruling class at the time. The author went into great details about every major events and minor decisions throughout the campaign so it is not simply a hack n slash no brainer experience but rather contain plenty of entertainment! (yeah last past was inspired by kcd). Anyway go check it out now b4 you forget the name Hawkwood since its truly one of the most underrated and least mentioned work of our time :)
Literally just finished reading Harlequin by Cornwell and this pops up
Very nice video, thank you for it! And I am happy to find so many stuff about our king Jan Lucembursky (John of Bohemia) here.
What the hell was he doing there? Far west of Bohemia.
He was old and blind and wanted to die honorably in battle, so this was kinda kamikadze attack @@eelchiong6709
@@eelchiong6709 they were allies. John's son Charles (the future king of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Emperor) was also present. Charles was raised at the French court. Also John was old, losing his eye-sight and wanted to fight one more time and die honorably in battle.
@@eelchiong6709 He was called absentee king, because most of his reign he spent fighting in foreign wars. He was born in Luxemburg, so he didn’t feel connected to Bohemia. He did expand Bohemian lands, though. His last words were: "Far be it that the King of Bohemia should run away. Instead, take me to the place where the noise of the battle is the loudest. The Lord will be with us. Nothing to fear. Just take good care of my son." But his son, Charles IV. became like the most important Bohemian/Czech ruler ever. Thanks to the upbringing John arranged for him.
@@eelchiong6709 Czechs as allies are a bit more reliable than the French...
Posted 56 seconds ago? Oh no, I am late to another good HM documentary!
Crazy how Alencon lost a count at crecy and a duke at agincourt. Pretty sure that would be the father and son of Ben Afflecks character in the last duel.
John II, Duke of Alençon was Joan of Arc's comrade-in-arms, so the family took revenge on the English invader.
Jean 1 almost won the battle by himself at Azincourt when he killed York and injured Gloucester and was close to do the same to Henry 5.
Oh man i love historymarche!
Awesome as always
John gave new meaning to 😂charging blindly 😂
I never knew about the digging of potholes in front of the troops (as being a hinderance to the cavalry). I love the narration, the pronouncitation of the French cities is so Cool.
High quality as always. TY
“I’m rich beyond my wildest deams!”
*hehe*
30:33 they did kill all the easily wounded and those playing dead.
A blinding success, was that meant!
The Battle of Crecy posed a significant challenge for the French forces as they were already physically drained from their long march, and to make matters worse, they had to conquer a steep hill before they could engage the British troops. The British longbowmen, renowned for their skill and prowess in combat, were a formidable force to reckon with during this period. These highly trained archers had been honing their craft since childhood, mastering the art of using the longbow with exceptional precision. Surprisingly, the French seemed to have neglected learning any valuable lessons from their encounters with the British longbowmen in the past. Instead, they stubbornly persisted in adopting the same outdated tactics, only to be met with the same predictable outcome of defeat.
They learned since the Valois ultimately won.
The English archers were still defeated by the French. The Hundred Years' War is not limited to Crécy or Agincourt.
England only used massively longbowmen since the early 1330's and used the same tactics as France previously so there was no real previous lessons.
English, not British. Britain wasn't a united kingdom for another 400 years after this.
Hard to do anything when the English tactic is to just sit on a hill and wait on a heavy defensive position.
The last words attributed to Jan of Luxemburg, blind at the time of the battle, are:
„Deus dabit illud non erit ut fugeret rex Bohemie a pugna“ in Latin (as recorded in Cronica ecclesiae Pragensis)
„God grant that it will not be that the king of Bohemia flees from battle.“ in English
or „Toho Boh dá nebude, aby český král z boje utekl.“ in Czech.
Shiiii got tragic, ngl tho it looked like the French didn't even try at first
French never fail to disappoint.
Indeed, they won the war!
@@clemsi7596They have a large population 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب And half of this population side with Edward so he had the numbers with him.
They won the war didn't they😉
Thank you love these videos!
I always cheer on the English side, as I am an Anglo-Saxon American and this is my history, while watching these types of videos, but when the Black Prince is involved I can't seem to make myself do it.
You shouldn't cheer too much as the French won the war
@@user-wh8mb7tm2g the English have all the best highlights though
"God forbid that the Bohemian king flees battle!" - John of Bohemia/Luxembourg
I've been so lucky to discover that I have many ancestors English and Welsh whom fought at crecy and poitiers , one of whom was Einion ap Ithael , of Rhiwaedog Bala he was the black princes bodyguard , descended from Rhirid Flaidd the wolf 😮
'Clout' is a Form of Archery still practiced today.
It's Great Fun, a Flag is placed at a Distance and Every Archer try's to hit Said Flag or Marker.
To See and Loose the Arrows on Mass.
It Sent Shivers up my Spine, every time. And Everyone envolved, had/have Massive smiles on their Faces..!
It feels like the 'True Point of Archery..!'
Cheers All. 😎
Great narrator 😊
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I wonder which is worse for the French Crecy of Agincourt which happened later?
Love all of it..everything I've watched so far. Brilliant, I can feel my brain growing. 🧠
I hope you can make some series about the napoleonic wars or Autrian's hungarian campagn in 1848 revolution
Oh man… have you ever explored EpicHistoryTV’s channel? I’ve always just assumed that no one else wants to touch the Napoleonic era because of how incredibly well done and comprehensive EpicHistory’s channel is on him particular.
"Witness our too much memorable shame. When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captiv’d by the hand
Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales
Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,
Mangle the work of nature and deface
The patterns that by God and by French fathers
Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
The native mightiness and fate of him"
-William Shakespeare, Henry V
Blah, blah, blah... Old Shakespeare never digested the fact that the French won the war 😅
@@MarquisVincentBissetdeGramont It was mainly celebrated because of the huge power difference between England and France, historically France was the main power of Europe due to its huge population compared to most other feudal kingdoms, ie England had 3-4x less people.
@@Yellow-kp9gs And half of France was allied with England at least one time in the 100YW
@@robert-surcouf To a degree yes, but it’s debatable if England could truly use the French man power outside of a few loyal regions like Gascony and Britanny. Many garrisons within English France were manned by English/welsh and even German troops.
@@Yellow-kp9gs Brittany wasn't part of france until 1532 and the relationship between Brittany and England was rather up and down after 1364 but they became real ennemis only after 1435.
In Gascony, the garrisons was held by gascons too and many of them fought since the beginning until the end like Poitiers (1356) or Castillon (1453).
Flanders were rather ally between 1340 and 1380 then 1419 and 1435 and neutral for the remaining time and outside of Calais, there was not any real garrison.
Burgundy was ally betwwen 1419 and 1435 and the duke owned Flanders since 1384 so english garrison in this regions were useless.
For Normandy, Charles of Navarre owned half of it so england had security between 1350 and 1370 but they indeed had to made garrisons between 1415 and 1453.
For the Poitou, many nobles were loyals to Edward because of business affairs and after Bretigny, fight for him in the 1360's and 1370's.
For the Rouergue, Armagnac, Bearn or Perigord, their loyalty after Bretigny were indeed doubtful but mostly because Edward of Woodstock tax them too heavily after Najera.
I can agree that England/Plantagenet/Lancaster can't always the man power for these duchy/county but it's also true for France/Valois and this is why the numbers were never worse than 1vs2 instead of 1vs5
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WOW! That river must of been shallow for the English to swim and then plow through the French attack...
To fuck up this badly with so many mounted troops is... very French.
At least for once French knights did not get ambushed but head first jumped into a foreseeable military disaster.
Luv this story
As a point of history, I heard that the 👍 thumbs up sign came from English bowmen? They use the measure to confirm the tightness of the longbow.
Any questions?
As far as I know; not the thumb-up (that's from the Roman era), but the V-sign (reversed): bowmen use index + middle fingers for gripping arrows and before the battle French threatened to Englishmen that will cut off their fingers to permanently disable them. But Englishmen were victorious, and afterwards become popular to mocking the French by shoving them those two fingers (with fist turned to owner in distinguish to a famous Churchill's V(ictory)-sign). Later that become universal mocking gesture in English folklore.
But that was aftermath of the another one battle in a Hundred years war (if I recall correctly), at Crecy no quarter was ordered on both sides - so no prisoners with fingers to cut.
@@augustlandmesser1520 And Agincourt.... ;-)
erm WELSH bowmen were the experts of the day , the English longbow was a direct copy of the Welsh longbow , Welsh archers lived by longbow , English longbowmen not as experienced
Intersting as per usual.
I call the BS on the longbow rate of fire.
Useful shooting in combat is nothing like sport Speedshooting. In combat you would need to take into consideration staving of fatigue by keeping steady, not overly taxing pace. Also arrow supplies are not infinite and most likely only part of them are immediately available with the rest needing to be brought to the fighting position from supply carts.
Also a big chunk of the why field fortifications and obstacles were built is slowing the enemy advance to allow ranged weapons to strike at exposed and slowed targets. No need to fatigue yourself with speed shooting, when enemy advance is slowed by 20 meters deep field of obstacles and you are behind some nice cozy field fortifications.
You are right. Mark Stretton can shoot 11 arrows in 1 min, but that will leave him exhausted. Continuous shooting would be 6 arrow per min, but even that is hard without a break. Longbowmen waited and shot arrows from close range and then took a pause until the next wave of attack came in.
The longbow also had a ridiculous amount of physical effort involved. It seems ridiculous that the longbowmen wouldn't fatigue after a few minutes of firing at such a rate.
Yes, pulling a warbow is similar to doing a one arm dumbell row with a very heavy weight while holding a somewhat ligter dumbell out with a straight arm infront of you. Your delts, triceps, and forearms will start shaking due to lactic acid buildup and musclefiber fatigue, so of course your repetition speed is going to slow down after a short while, eventually you will be hard pressed to pull that bowstring all the way back, or likely have to rest for several minutes until enough energy can be re-generated for a couple of more pulls on the bowstring.
@@rayzas4885they were a lot more used to exercise than people are today.
They pulled the bow so often that it deformed their bones.
remember guys, no leaking of classified documents to this episode sponsor,even they are not amused
as for the subject of the video... France did an oopsie again and England banked on it, as it always happened in this war, even if it's England who had the most oopsies
Awesome video wasn't it the count of alencon not Duke, I know later like agincourt times it was Duke of alencon. The writing on the map telling each person's name says count. Not nitpicking just curious love the channel 😊
Ok The Blind Guy Did What 😂😂😂😂 I'm fooking done
Great work! Only problem is the illustration of the birds as it is distracting.