Battle of Poitiers, 1356 ⚔ The Capture of a King ⚔ Hundred Years' War

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🎼 Music:
Kevin MacLeod - All This
Kevin MacLeod - Impact Allegretto
Kevin MacLeod - Impact
Kevin MacLeod - Crypto
Epidemic Sound
Filmstro
📚 Sources:
Peter Hoskins - In the Steps of the Black Prince, The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356 (2011)
David Nicolle - Poitiers 1356, The capture of a king (2004)
David Green - Battle of Poitiers 1356 (2002)
British battles - Poitiers - by Hillaire Belloc (1913)
#history #medieval #documentary

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Your 100 years war work is on a whole new level man! Could You consider doing the Siege of Vienna of 1683?

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I'm so glad you remade this battle from five years ago.

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If you can please do battle of Velbuzhd,your work and videos are great :)

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It's okay ! Most of the name have a good pronunciation. It's just somewhat strange for us, Jeanne d'arc to Joanne of arc, or Jean to John. But your vidéo are perfect, thank you !

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The video that made me subscribed to the channel 5 years ago. ⚔️🛡️

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Medieval commanders with proper scouting? Impossible I say!

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"That's soldiering" i say!

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*Robert the Bruce has entered the chat*

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@@steamedpunk13 yeah nah. Methven remember?

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They need UAVs 😂😂

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

I've heard of this battle and King John's capture for years. But did not know his 14 old son was present with him at his capture! Well done!

[@uwbollema]

It was mostly for this that his dad rewarded him with the duchy of Burgundy

[@shaunwalker2557]

can't imagine any of todays royals fighting like the Black Prince and his noble friends...and hats off to the French. .King Jean and his young son and his nobles. .todays Charles wouldn't lift a finger to save this country as he has thrown away 100's of years culture and history as long as people bow and curtsey ..sold Christianity out to appeal to the Muslims and non English.

[@MrBubblecake]

@@shaunwalker2557let’s be honest, the French have had war PTSD since WW2 🤷🏽‍♂️😂 and then having to watch the United States (the country they once controlled) be given the glory had to hurt lol

[@Jaymsie.]

21:40 just my opinion, but it seems to me as though the decision to feign a retreat towards the river was a clever move. Not only does the Earl of Warwick entice the enemy into their initial charge, but once his troops wheel about to engage the enemy, he manages their repositioning, so that an out flanking option is no longer available to the French, as the English battle line runs to the marsh, PLUS the archers final position winds up being in that marsh, where they are well protected from cavalry. None of these things existed whilst Warwicks division remained where it initially stood.

[@bbbruh8809]

True, it was good trap

[@bremnersghost948]

Classic Norman Tactic.

[@kentanyamartin8313]

Fr it pretty much won the battle cus eliminated a whole division with little resistance

[@user-hu5iw4lb4x]

Man you know what you’re talking about ! Impressive !!

[@remypascal4872]

This one step back as invitation... not new there. But enough french commanders and enough of the soldiers were there not intelligent enough in tactics or too intelligent for anti fight egoism. Unbelievable this acting. It was a bloody gift to the invaders.

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There is a gap between 1356 and 1415 not covered by the series. And thank you for this great effort.

[@HistoryMarche]

Working on the gap ;)

[@jetonzag6087]

I'm surprised how the French didn't focus special attention on the English longbow men before any front line engagement. These English units proved time and again to be the most dangerous yet the French repeated the same mistakes. Can anyone explain if maybe I am wrong?

[@Yellow-kp9gs]

No the french learned overtime and to be fair the English longbowmen were brilliant when in good terrain or defence. If they weren’t supported or their defences weren’t ready they could be overrun due to their lack of armour.

[@rdb8887]

One of the main reasons French knights didn't focus on longbowmen is because most knights wanted to capture enemy nobility so that they could earn a ransom. Ransoms were extremely profitable and a key incentive for fighting in war at the time. Many poorer knights needed ransoms in order to finance the money they spent to go off to war. However longbowmen were not nobility, so they weren't worth a ransom and thus French knights sought to fight English knights instead of longbowmen. Essentially there was a strong financial reason to only focus on the English knights.

[@thibaultsardet7399]

They wanted adventure, glory and fortune like their Frankish ancestors in Charlemagne's times or Crusades for example, because they were raised on the Songs and Epics, of Roland or King Arthur, and even Troubadours's love songs (in chivalric way). It was particularly successful among the Nobility, because the values of chivalry were born in France, or the Medieval French (and Occitan) speaking world in general (particularly, Counties of Toulouse, Provence or Duchies of Aquitaine, Burgundy and Normandy, plus Norman's Sicily ). This is why most, including the youngest, were so eager to fight first, but in the old feudal mentality, while the world had already changed. The Plantagenet Army modernized more, especially after the wars against the Scots, where they saw that the old tactics of chivalry alone were no longer enough. Then in the 15th century, it will be the opposite, Charles VII will promote a more modern army, where the Plantagenets will remain cemented in the ancient tactics of the Longbowmen, which worked before.

[@IronWarrior86]

Another big reason i think is that they saw it beneath themselves to charge, what in their minds were, "peasants". Chivalry took presedence over consideration on how to best win the battle.

[@forlornfool221]

Not an exact fit.. yet I can't help comparing the inflexibility of many WW1 Generals..

[@DrKarmo]

Amazing video! It really shows how terrain is important when facing a heavy cavalry force, the french were defeated the same way they were in crecy and the same way the parthians were defeated by ventidius at mount gindarus. You guys should remake crecy btw! Keep up the good work!

[@wahcks1142]

Ventidius was an insane general

[@vincentknatz7993]

poitiers plays out very different compared to crecy

[@DrKarmo]

@@vincentknatz7993 i meant to highlight the importance of terrain rather than a 1 to 1 comparison

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It's always about the terrain and communication.

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[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was another wonderful historical coverage video shared by an amazing ( History Marche) channel about Poitiers' battle between French kingdom and Anglogascon invaders on French territory at 1356 AD..where English long bow had obvious role for English gaining victory ✌️ while French utilized short Bows and bad controlling of French warriors columns brought defeat to French campaign....thank you (History Marche ) channel for sharing this incredible work

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[@SwagelokTaj]

I can feel myself envious of the Black Prince: hmmmm, what do I get my dad for Christmas? Oh, I know - I'll expand Gascony by nearly double, and bring the French King home as a prize. Easy, peasy. Me: I hope my dad likes this card.

[@robert-surcouf]

In fact, the gascons wants to keep Jean 2 prisoner at Bordeaux and it was Edward 3 who forced the black prince against his wish to bring him to London leading the black prince to compensate the gascons. The consequences were that the black prince lose the gascons trust and Gascony wassn't expand until 1360 with the Bretigny treaty but it was a step back from the London treaty in 1358 (never accepted by the Valois) because of the failure by Edward 3 chevauchée in 1359-1360

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[@OldieBugger]

Of course I watched this suspension story in full, as I never heard these kind of details in my history lessons. Thank you!

[@wedgeantillies66]

The French defeat at Poitiers is a very clear and useful example of how command and control broke down on the behalf of the French army in respect of the early cavalry charges and then the uncoordinated and unsupported attacks of separate battiles against the Anglo-Gascon lines. Leaving ripe for the plucking and defeat when superior command and control on the part of the Anglo-Gascon's leadership and tactical responses to the French moves, enabled them to make the most of their opportunities to score a decisive victory, with that double cavalry envelopment at the end.

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Thank you for this! I don't know how long the video lasts but Schwerpunkt uploaded a 3 hours tactical analysis of Poitiers that I prepotently recommend

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Amazing work on this classic, you've come a long way over these few years. Keep up the great work. Ive always enjoyed studying the 100 Years War😊

[@DrivermanO]

Bernard Cornwell wrote about this campaign in his book 1356. Its excellent. As is his Azincourt (Agincourt). Both are well worth a read.

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French Knights charging into the fray and getting obliterated case no. 28.

[@dentkort2046]

Funnily enough, it worked almost every time. This channel just over focuses on their few defeats. France had the best and most numerous knights in Europe, in an age where heavy cavalry was the meta.

[@mu2960]

Just never when it counted

[@kappadestiny638]

@@dentkort2046 That's really it honestly, so often are they used to simply steam rolling their enemies with sheer French chivalric mass that even when every sign says their better of staying put or waiting it out, somehow they still throw out all better thinking and charge anyway. Hey if it works almost all the time there's no way it could go wrong just this once right?

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The graphics on the maps do make following events a bit easier reading thehistory with a map available is much mure confusing. This presentation is like setting out terrain and miniatures, which is my preferred methodv for situation as complex as this. Well done! --Bob Bailey in Maine

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I wonder how the Edwardian phase influenced the position of Aquitainians after the region was incorporated into Valois territory Also really interested in Carolingian phase of the war.

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Yes

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Ahh! Poor poland, which had to pay taxes to the Ottomans

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yes, it's nice to practice French when using French names etc. but note that the peculiar "French R" hadn't evolved in the Middle Ages. It only came in the late 1600s...

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The attention to detail is amazing 😀

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[@Zombiewithabowtie]

Once again, the charge of overzealous French cavalry wins the day! ... For the other side.

[@lordvader5756]

Ok, why do the French attack one by one

[@lordvader5756]

@@randomuser-xc2wr Yes this is a good explanation. As you said, since they were inexperienced, I believe they just didn't follow orders and charged in too early. As to why didn't the king send all his forces after the charge, maybe he was also a bit cocky and/or feared encirclement if he sent all his forces. The second case is unlikely since he new the English king was stranded, although he might have thought that there was a chance of another force hidden somewhere. That is all just some rambling and I think that what you said is the most common mistake of this type.

[@paintingpanzers]

I could watch this series 100 times and it still wouldn't get old! I wonder what direction the HYW would've taken if the Black Prince didn't die so young?!

[@Jack-xg1kg]

It's been a long time since I studied the HYW but I suspect the structural issues that lead to England's eventual defeat would still have panned out the same way. England still wouldn't have been able to pay for and maintain its garrisons; the occupied territories would always have remained just that - occupied, not assimilated; the disparate, culturally French, factions would still have eventually united to drive out the English. England had no shortage of inspiring, skilled commanders after Edward, but they were never able to field armies on the same scale as the French or wield the same financial muscle.

[@spamhonx56]

@@Jack-xg1kg That sounds about right. Leaders can do a certain amount to draw in funds and gather allies, provide high-level political momentum to maintain wars, but there's a limit to it. The only way the HYW could have ended any other way would be if the black prince stuck around long enough to intimidate the french into an unconditional surrender, since outright beating of a kingdom the size of france wasn't ever really on the cards unless a lot of french nobles switched sides.

[@robert-surcouf]

@@spamhonx56 The Black prince died in 1376 (46 years old) while the Valois reconquest was between 1369 and 1375. In 1358, the 2nd London treaty gave Edward 3 half of france but un 1375, the only Edward continental possessions were Bayonne, Bordeaux, Brest and Calais (less than before the war) while the black prince was still in command. When the black prince died, it was only the final nail in the coffin and the tide has turn a long time before. Even if the black prince has survived, the Plantagenet were already on the losing end and the Black prince will ruled for 10 years (20 at best). What really hurts Eward 3 and the black prince was Charles 5 coronation in 1364 and the death of many great english commanders in the 1360s like Henry of grosmont in 1361 or John Chandos in 1369.

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[@optimistprime332]

Where do you get your maps? Thanks

[@nomask15]

What a battle God

[@ducati644]

After watching many of these battles, its amazing how the french attacks always seem to be so disorganized, how they constantly attacked when the english were in such a superior position, and how they failed to attack the longbowmen

[@kingscarbine]

You should expand to include the Iberian kingdoms role in the HYW.

[@iluen]

I have so many questions, how come you send in one "LINE" of footmen and just chill for 2 hours?!

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If you send more they would just be chilling while in range of the archers

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I love your videos! One minor note: sometimes the script jumps abruptly between past and present tenses, and it can be jarring - just something to consider when proofreading.

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I hate it. It's like the script writer had never written before.

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Nice

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Edward the black prience "Eddi" looks like exactly like Mr. Bean in Blackadder

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Battle of Chocim I'm still waiting for this battle 😍😍😍😍😍😍🙄🙄

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Yes please

[@Juanma_Breda]

Buen vídeo, pero en el mapa se marca Navarra que aún posee Vascongadas y ya en esas fechas hacía tiempo que formaba ya parte de Castilla.

[@guamcounty]

It seems like the French just wanted to charge to show courage and honor and then withdraw.

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Much better than reading a dry history description.

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[@anathardayaldar]

For a guy named "Boucicault", he fought surprisingly bravely.

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[@Spura83]

I don't quite understand though why these commanders, like french in this instance, didn't try to utilize more of their force at once. Why the piece-meal attacks? And if you're going to do waves of attacks, why not schedule them more closely together?

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

The main reason is that French command over the army wasn't absolute, lot of knights and subcommanders acting independantly. It stopped only in the last decades of Hundred years war, when France had finally a more professionnal army and a lot of artillery, and won.

[@robert-surcouf]

In the medieval era, low/local nobles have to fund themselves in war and with the big winter 1315-1317 and the black plague 1347-1351, many farmers who survived moved to cities while local nobles have less money with less people to tax and their only way to keep a decent income was war with ransom, that means you have to make another noble prisoner yourself and you can't if the men in arms made the jobs themselves. Another reason is Valois kings ruled only since 1328 and unlike Capetiens (who have also few power from 987-1180), they have to gained respect from nobility and people and are unlicky enough to deal with war since 1337 and many defeats in a row since 1345. The duty from nobles at the time is to protect the peasants who will fund their lavish lives in return. Because the chevauchees made so damages and french nobles have been incompetent since 1345, they have to fight and each one fight for his own glory instead to focus on winning the battle

[@jimmynegatron4619]

Communication and visibility were a limiting factor. Battle plans would be drawn up but each commander would move at their own discretion.

[@LegacyZwerg]

Man this young kid Philippe ( at 28:50) sure was something but I doubt we will hear from him again. He will probably never become the head of a rising dukedom and establish a new noble house rivaling and maybe overshadowing even France and the Emperor in its power or wealth :D

[@barbiquearea]

Charles the Bad was actually John II's uncle in law, as Charles's older sister Blanche of Navarre had been married to the late King Philip VI. Funny enough she was originally supposed to be married to John when he was still the Dauphin, but that all changed when his father got the hots for her and promptly broke off her engagement with his son to wed her instead. Charles the Bad often joked about how John II almost became his brother in law, but instead became his step nephew in law.

[@IronWarrior86]

When the French hadn't yet learned how to deal with the novel Longbow.

[@Dayvit78]

CANNONS! GET THE CANNONS!

[@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167]

I think they could if only their commanders could get proper control. To quote Henry V play - "The devil take order, I'll to the throng".

[@doubledouble4g379]

I bet it's because they were 'peasants' and the French nobility refused to see them as a threat, no matter how well-armed. They didn't respect their opponents and that lack of respect is why they were utterly broken.

[@IronWarrior86]

@@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167 Of course, the French cohesion left something to be desired, like half the army deciding to leave halfway through, as well as commiting sections of troops piecemeal without elaborating on how to use their nummerical superiority to flank the English.

[@IronWarrior86]

@@doubledouble4g379 Yes, clearly they must have underestimated their opponent. However the French had faced the Longbow prior to Poitiers, it's the lack of acknowledging the potency of that weapon that is perplexing...

[@user-gd3xy2vl1s]

Amazes me that they could asssemble any armies following the Black Death only a few years previously.

[@lemonacidrounds7293]

Imagine the birth rate after that reached millions in few years and I don't have a woman or a kid. How the heck...?

[@molybdaen11]

And this is why communication is so important. I still wonder why the french did not try to sneak uo through the forest - to many wolfes?

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As some one ho loves these videos, Yous needs a better map tracker. Idk who is who

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Dang, 6 ads really sucks. If everyone watched 2-3 ads that would help me a lot, but 6... ho-lee-fuk. Thanks for sticking it out though, much appreciated.