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THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR(1337-1453)
Battles:
Crecy (1346)
The first major land battle of the war: Genoese crossbow men against English bowmen
Poitiers (1356)
The French King captured by Edward, the Black Prince.
The Siege of Harfleur and the battle of Agincourt (1415):
30,000 French against 6,000 Englishmen. One of the greatest English victories.
Orleans (1429)
The rise of Joan of Arc and the defeat of the English
THE BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY (1403)
Henry IV and Prince Hal, (the future Henry V), face the would-be usurper Hotspur. For the first time, Englishmen use the
War bow against Englishmen. And find out how an arrow head was removed from Prince Hal's face.
THE WARS OF THE ROSES(1455-1485)
Battles:
St. Albans (1455):
The first clash between the Houses of Lancaster and York
Blore Heath and Ludford Bridge (1459):
Yorkist victory and Yorkist defeat in Shropshire.
Mortimer's Cross (1461)
Three Suns in the sky herald a Yorkist victory
St. Albans (1461)
The second clash between the Houses of Lancaster and York
Towton (1461):
The biggest, longest and most bloody battle ever fought in Britain.
Barnet (1471)
The end of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: The Kingmaker.
Tewkesbury (1471)
The last Yorkist victory
Bosworth (1485)
The famous battle between Henry Tudor and Richard III.
Stoke Field (1487)
The final battle between Lancaster and York
The Medieval Herbalist
Medieval Bowman
The Warlord
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