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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
The Barber Surgeon
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