Battles of the Hundred Years' War

The war in brief

The Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) was a series of wars between the kings of England and France over the French crown and English lands in France. The English won the famous battles: Sluys gave them the Channel, and at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt dismounted men-at-arms and massed longbowmen beat larger French armies, capturing a French king at Poitiers. France won the war. Joan of Arc's relief of Orléans in 1429 turned the tide, and French artillery and a reformed standing army then drove the English out of almost everything but Calais. The war helped end the age of the armoured knight and gave both nations a sharper sense of themselves.