History of England - Fire and Swords - Part 2 - Extra History
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- 📜 History of England: Fire and Swords - On the 26th of August,1346, Philip's army drew near the English force. The French were strung out for miles. Phillip's best commanders advised caution: put on those comfy jim-jams the Queen gave you last Christmas, don the royal slippers, get a goodnight's snooze, and let everyone catch up, then drown the English in a river of their own blood after a light breakfast. But Phillip looked upon the current puny size of the English army, and ordered the attack anyway...
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Edward III would impose what he called "fire and sword" on the French countryside, intimidating Phillip VI into a fight he was *pretty sure* he could win...
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Non nobis domine
Why do you use maps of modern countries?
how about extra history morocco as a next topic
Awesome! So the English won the War!
(Realizes that it's called the 100 Years War for a reason and there are still 90 years left)
*Oh no*
There a part 3?
*Lands In Normandy*
Ah shit, here we go again
Ah shit, here we go...before?
Ah shit here we go
*English forces fighting at the river somme and struggling to break trough.*
@@joshuadarrow *Approximately 500 years later* ah shit here we go again
Through the Gates of Hell
As we make are way to Paris
Through the Knightly LInes
*Primo Victoria!*
The Holy Roman Emperor being a useless ally?
*gasp* no!
*Surprised Pikachu* wat
Its not like countless games of Crusader Kings 2 has proven that you can't rely on them.
*cough*great Italian war*cough*
Oh my lord: someone must be gossiping again!
That can’t be true!
@@maggintons sad but true
Sharing a glass of wine with a bag of gold is probably something several Holy Roman Emperors did.
well the votes for the emperorship were not going to paid by themselves.
Not so holy. Not so Roman. Not even an empire.
@@yoshilorak5897 i smell vlotaire in the air
Unless Ottomans are at the gates this does seem like the strong play. Even if the Ottomans are at the gates we could always get absurdly lucky.
@@yoshilorak5897 the unholy not so roman fuckfest of bordergore
"edward had a plan" Bismark approves of this
I GOT THE REFERENCE
edward ALWAYS had a plan
So Bismarck isn’t the only one who can make good-ish plans and then make success in other plans.
@@Historybuffm8 Makes me wonder where Bismarck learned to have a plan. :-D
Well, they do share a common enemy in France. :P
The last words of John the Blind, King of Bohemia were "God forbid the Bohemian king ever flees from battle"
John was also known ass Jean of Luxembourg. Has to be said....
*Toho Bohdá nebude, aby český král z boje utíkal*
Epic FailureCZ is this the real life cough I mean, erm
So if the last two people he was with were also found dead next him,who recorded his last words?
@@StickWithTrigger probably someone nearby who managed to survive
* drunk Sir Arthur of Morgan stumbles into the room *
*"MANNY!"*
Everybody: "Nani?!"
"Lenny!"
“YNNAM!”
King Edward: I have a plan. We just need more *moneh*
So does this mean that Flanders is Edwards Tahiti or is that gascony
King John of Bohemia was once challenged to a duel by king Casimir of Poland to a duel for the right to the Polish crown (which was contested at the time). Casimir knew that John is very chivalrous and wouldn't refuse an honorable duel, despite being blind. And he didn't. He just set one small rule. To make the duel fair, Casimir had to gouge out his own eyes.
Casimir backed down.
Adam Latosiński feel like a simple blindfold would have done the trick
@@michaelkearney2294 I'm sure Casimir felt the same, but John was the one who set that term.
Adam Latosiński
DAYUM SON
Bohemias were butual bruh
A true king would have done it then won. XD
Major props for giving credit to the Welsh.
Ive heard of this welshmen even in my own country... Ive heard that they never yield
@@vivamexico254 their sheep not so much
@@erikjohnson9075 *WHOA*
Not enough credit due though. They should of mentioned how the longbow originated from the Welsh and was later adapted by the English.
@@FlamboyantInsomniac Which is what they tell the sheep if they try to run away.
This series is a good example of why I like English humour.
When will the "english humor" circlejerk end?
*DROWN THE ENGLISH IN A RIVER OF THEIR OWN BLOOD.* After a light breakfast, don't go too heavy on the sausages, Louis, we both know how that goes.
@@GustafMedF when the swedish can correctly pronounce the letter 'j' :)
@@494Farrell we already do.
@@494Farrell bitch maybe start correctly pronuncing ANY of the swedish language before you pass judgement m8, y'all are even worse
(Sorry for salting this perfectly civil convo)
"Those are some nice Knights you got there...be a shame if someone were too..."
**Notches Longbow**
"Remove them"
"REMOVE Croissant remove croissant
you are worst frank. you are the frank idiot, you are the frank smell. return to France. to our French cousins you may come to our country. you may live in the channel….ahahahaha, Croissant we will never forgive you. Take a bath of dead frank knight. MANNY WILL GET YOU! REMOVE CROISSANT FROM THE PREMISES.
England greatest country!"
And then we haven’t even gotten to the battle of Agincourt yet.
Longbow vs plate? Poor Archer
@@El-Silver Did you even watch the video? If so you know why that's false.
@@sunjian5458 I did and ?
Like the video said the killer was daggers because longbows are almost useless against plate armour
The British won do to superior tatics and french Incompetence
( Example the French did not let the genoese crossbowman who in this video are dressed like french men , to use their pavise shields taking their defense that they had while they reloaded ) not because the longbow was a super weapon
1:57 So when you send gifts and marry off your daughter to create an alliance with a realm in ck2 and then your ally never sends you any troops is historically accurate
They must had gone to great pains
I mean just hope they don't have a 800 rebel army in their land, if they don't they'll send like 1k Soldiers if you're lucky
If the Rebel army is there, they better be prepared for the might of the HRE
I’m guilty of technically honouring my alliance to join the war but not actually join the war because soldiers take a long time to raise and I’ve got better uses for them.
In CK3 they show up! And then eat all your supplies because the AI thinks it's Hearts of Iron and London can support 180,000 people in it when the supply limit is barely 5k.
French: "hon hon, we have naval superiori-
England: " *no* "
XD
I feel like this happens just so many times over the years between the two countries.
France won :)
1862, England: "Oh no, the USA made a ironclad ship!"
@@emeraldleafeon4705 HMS Warrior: Am I a joke to you?
Edward had a plan
*Heavy Breathing thinking of Bismarck*
Edward ALWAYS had a-
*Bismarck bursts throguh the ground*
"Now that's a man I approve!"
"Bloody peasants (archers)"
- The French (Probably)
*Hons in sad* - Dehorsed French Knight
Gives "up Your bum" sign With two fingers With knockles showing
Not the last time the Somme would be a challenge for England
Alejandro Kaplan 😂
bombed last night
and bombed the night before...
The Trooper we’ll never stop the bombing
Yup XD who knew that the river would still be a problem centuries later
Normandy landing
*blind man* leading cavalry?
Bohemia, please take military 101...
Jan Žižka was leading his army while blind. He never lost battle in his life...
@@martinsriber7760 Czech hero
Toho bohdá nebude, aby český král z boje utíkal!
God forbid the Bohemian king ever flees from battle!
XD but You only need to charge
@Dead Inside the best
Loved how you downplayed English odds throughout the video to add to the impact of their eventual win at Crecy. :)
Edward III was an absolute mad lad.
Also can we get David to do more vids after this series or no?
Admiral yi would have beaten that fleet with 3 John boats
facts
And yet he'll still be demoted into a lowly grunt.
@@FeyTheBin Also facts!
@@FeyTheBin so true
7:59
Major respect. ✊
Easily the worst part about this is watching all of the cute EH horses getting cut down by arrows. :(
@Dead Inside To Extra Credits? The horses died, hence they had to die.
To the English? The horses threatened to kill, hence they had to die.
@@timothymclean Those horses were swearing abuse at the English whom were offended by their nasty language
Well a horse probely killed gengis khan
The English: Lessons are meant to be learned here
The French: NOPE
The French: Learn your own lessons, we're going to win this war.
@@peterlynch1458 Englishman: *notches longbow* yeah, aboouuuut that...
7:20 In defense of the crossbowmen, from what I understand they were supposed to have had pavise shields in order to protect themselves. But because the attack was ordered so hastily, they were forced to leave their shields behind and were thus left without one of their greatest forms of protection against the longbow.
Edit: misspelled pavise as passive.
Good catch on that.
Also, they weren't French, the crossbow men were mercenaries, hired by the French crown, since they were supposed to be the very best crossbow men in all of Europe at that time
@@weldonwin Weren't they normally from northern italy?
@@awkwardvulture638 Genoa yes
@@Madhattersinjeans According to some sources, they were basically being shoved forwards by all the French knights behind them, who were jostling with one another to dash forwards so they could capture some English knights for ransom. A recurring theme you'll be finding, is the lack of discipline among the French armies, especially at Agincourt
Foreshadowing of Henry V's campaign in France.
And there will be many Shakespeare quotes and much French salt
@@weldonwin yup
Agincourt. Also known as Crecy 2: Electric Boogaloo.
@@Slayerlord0 There was also Poitiers in 1356, where the English again won against all odds, even capturing the French king.
@@shurik121 Shh...spoilers! ;-)
Edwards plan consisted of fighting until he reached such a point where he won
Winning is easy! All u gotta do is just not lose. Simple!
"Iron and Blood" - Prussia
"Fire and Swords" - England
GoT: lol...
Fire and Sword (singular) is probably more aptly credited to Poland, being that the book "With Fire and Sword" is likely to some extent responsible for the name of this video.
@@LawL_LawL
Don't forget the Last Witch Hunter:
"by FIre and Iron rofl"
And my axe....sorry, wrong room.
@@omarkhan5223 wait what about the ice? Oh wait. This isn't the Game of Thrones convention
is no one damaged by the picture of the cat having a tumb
We Will forget the torture after eight breif minutes in paradise
if that is too much for you, i suggest you never look at a koala's paw.
@@Kronossphere koala's dont have human tumb's
What's a tumb?
@@clearlyyy3269 He means "thumb".
France: *exists*
King Edward lll: its Free real estate
But allas they didnt win TAKE THAT BOWMEN
*glances at mountain of debt*
Well, maybe not free
@@twistedtachyon5877 lmao yeah you're right
This is basically a normal conflict in Crusader Kings 2.
maggintons when you 12k stack dies to a 4K stack because you didn't have any commanders
Were the Genoese Crossbowmen at Crecy aware of their impending doom? Why, Yes! Their heavy "Pavese"-shields were still held up with the rest of Phillipe's baggage train, their ill-fated attack consequently turned into a route, breaking the momentum of the french cavalry... Sometimes a single mistake is enought.
Who would win
A massive French army that is lead by the king himself and armed with some of the best soldiers in Christendom
A bunch of peasants armed with longbows
Bio_54 yes, but you have to remember, some of those presents are *welsh.*
Ah, even worse, I see.
some bow bois
in history the peasants are the ultimate weapon. We can take the vietnam war for exemple x)
The english king won beacuse the french king was mentally ill
Hey guys!
I actually had the privilege of doing my MA dissertation on this period, and I think you did a great job of boiling it down to an easily digestable quick video. The bit about Edward III's 'teaching self reliance' is very amusing, especially in the context of 'eh, I've got other sons'.
One slight quibble I have is that Philip VI really wasn't in control of the French army at Crecy. In large part, the large French force arrived piecemeal and pretty much went straight into it.
French Knights: “nO YoU CaN’t uSe L0nG BoWs ITs N0t FaIR!”
English long bowmen: “haha bow go twang!”
Edward is such an absolute madlad 6:27
Accepting gold and other benefits only to renege or squirrel out of any obligations? Well the HR Emperor must be Paradox player
I actually always tried to keep alliances since the only alliances I ever make where one's I needed.
Fadi Rabadi Always? I sometimes do too that but because their long term allies (like you), decide to role play, have a very specific goal (like making a Mongol Turkic Manchu Tibetan confederation) or get attached to a certain nation
Ah, my memories of honoring an alliance by agreeing to declare war, and simply never raising any troups. Good times.
@@dynamicworlds1 ah yes of course im gonna my dear friends war i simply cant stand idly by watching your men get slaughtered
Philip: Y'all are gonna die
Some peasant: no u
Starting from 4:04 i was laughing hard when the knight danced 😂
I find the lack of Monty Python and the Holy Grail French jokes...... Disturbing.
Barry Bend depends on where the series will be concluded, eventually we will get a humiliating defeat of England at the hand of France. although a “bravely ran away” joke would work for both Eddy3 and Harry5
Barry do I have some news for you!
I have a slight nitpick. Longbows absolutely could *not* pierce plate armor, and had trouble piercing mail & gambeson. The fact of the matter is the shear number of arrows in a volley would find openings and weak points in the armor.
Thought you were going to say he said "fired" @ 7:18
@@brendancskinner Meh. Works for me.
Also when armour continue to evolve even the gaps where arrow proof
@@El-Silver Exactly right.
@@HGodwin1 like the eye slits became arrow proof
Heck even the horse arguably the biggest weakness was made arrow proof
Love that David Crowther is doing these episodes! I just started listening to his podcast a little while back as I've got more into early English history.
Wait... your telling me an English soldier’s war cry was NANI
:thinking:
Timestamp?
Many
Omae wa mu, shin de ru
No, that's what the French said when they saw the wall of arrows coming their direction
“Edward would teach the French that the most powerful weapon on the battlefield was a lightly armoured, low-born peasant.”
Well that backfired
If cats developed opposable thumbs they would become the masters of this plane of existence.
Cravendale!!!
No one would have to open those pesky tuna cans for then.
They already do.
The crossbowmen of the French army were actually Genoese crossbowmen, the best armed and trained crossbowmen on the continent. They would usually fight behind big Pavese shields, but due to a logistic disaster made by the French generals, not only they deployed the crossbowmen without their shields in a disadvantegeous position, but the rain also soaked the strings of their weapons, thus rendering them completely useless.
I miss the descriptions of military strategies in extra history. The Punic wars series was great because of this.
French noblemen boast about their superior chivalry and upbringing.
Poor English peasants: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
There were no poor English peasants in this battle ,the French man at arms and the English longbowman usually come from the same social class just with different level of wealth
blimey this chap has one of the best voices, i am absolutely gobsmacked.
" The crossbowmen ran. Or died." That one made me laugh.
Dude, Hearing about John of Bohemia, the blind king was sick as hell, despite only showing up for a few seconds. Reminds me of the bullet farmer from mad max: fury road
*dies irae plays*
John of Bohemia did not see that coming...
(I'm going to Hell, right now...)
For that grammar, yes you are.
Say hi to alasor
Helps with the whole “lifetime of training” thing when it’s literally the law (which might be worth a mention). It wasn’t some scrappy cultural thing where fathers taught their sons out of the goodness of heir hearts, it was an extremely effective government defence policy.
Teacher: And this is an example of why you don't piss off the peasantry. They can and have won great battles
Louis XVIth: (snores)
It's not the only time the peasantry have won a battle
*is looking at the modern day examples i.e American revolution, Vietnam war etc.*
*me being part French on my mom’s side*
Oh no those poor knights
*me being mostly English/Welsh on my Dad’s side*
FOR ENGLAND!!!! 🏴 🏴
Yes
SAINT GEORGE
LONG LIVE BRITANIA!
French army: trained and well equipped knights with courage
English army: we have peasants with bigger bows
2:34 Man, Edward must've been really flexible to stick his hands in his ears like that: palms out AND thumbs up.
Glen Straughn
The lack of arms helps
"Edward had a plan."
*Bismarck would like to know your location*
France: I have a bigger navy, army and country. You will lose
Edward: no, I don't think I will
If you have a date with a bag of gold, you must be very lonely
Or he could be spiritual kin to Scrooge McDuck, loving his money over all else.
He was the real scrouge macduck
That's something somebody without a bag of gold would say.
Seems you’ve never felt the warm embrace of a nice bag o gold. Shame, you really should meet one some day, they’re the sweetest of coin.
Bags of gold are really lovely, met one the other day. She was playing hard to get though, behind a wall of glass.
Further issues for the French were the fact that they have to charge uphill in muddy conditions, which slowed them down.
must say, i love the horses you guys draw :)
Edward III's infantry tactics were by no means revolutionary. The Flemish were using similar tactics against French cavalry as early as 1302 (Battle of the Golden Spurs), after which the French quickly adapted (see Mons-en-Pevele in 1305).
The battle of Crecy was actually even more of a French F§€£* up. They basically assumed they would win to the point of forcing their crossbow men went into the field without an essential piece of their equipment. A large shield which they would hide behind.This was after they were forced to stand in the rain, with their crossbows. Funny thing about the drawstring of a crossbow is that its quite complex to take off a crossbow. You know what the English archers did? Have their drawstrings under their helmets. Basically the longbowmen were able to massacre the French army almost at their leisure. The casualty count was tens of thousands of French knights and men at arms dead and wounded versus maybe a few hundred dead English troops. The battle basically made cavalry defunct on the battlefield for a few hundred years.
What will beat an army of English peasants? French peasants ofcourse..... Enter Du Guesclin
The Coat of Arms of the Livery Company of Bowyers simply has as the motto: Crecy Poitiers Agincourt XD
France: I have an army
English: We have a longbow
7:51 *Toho Bohdá nebude, aby český král z boje utíkal,*
Czech history is everywhere
1:16 When your medieval game reuses assets (Two of each body, with a different orientation)
England: I got this war in the bag, no frenchie with a baguette could possibly step up to us
Joan of Arc enters the chat
Yes
I LOVE THESE EC HORSIES!!!
0:42 This is modern France, middle age france was only half of the that territory. Despite that, i would not be surprise that France was 5 times more populated than England at that time.
I can't be the only one who rewound the part where the knight dances on the shredded remains of the rules of war a few times. The image is just too amusing.
So basically, the English had *Plot armor*
More like they out planned their enemy while the French thought they were going to destroy them, so they didn't take them seriously enough until much later in the war. Not a great accountant, but certainly good at strategy.
@@derekskelton4187 The French weren't ready
I realize that the English were better tactitians (another example Agincourt).
But you need to agree that they were insanely lucky.
@@nightwolfjr.6184 Lucky is good.
Who wins?
A large group of Crossbow infantry?
Or
Some Sheep bois with a large stick and string?
To bad the crossbow didn't not have the pavise shield
Landing at Normandy & involving the River Somme. Huh.
Its like history goes in a cycle
When you play an arena map enough, some strategies just emerge as just the standard optimal play for the level layout no matter who you're up against.
Yeeeessssss!!! I love this new series!
One small correction. Edward did not decide to face the French at Agincourt. He was outmaneuvered and was thus forced to face the french if he wanted to flee to England.
I keep seeing the dates tick closer and closer to 1347 and getting increasingly nervous...
Spoilers: the armies employed at the start of the 100 years war were much bigger than the ones used towards the end. There is a significant drop in troop numbers around 1347-50 for some reason.
@@Oxtocoatl13 I mean when all the largest armies get absolutely decimated at the start of the war and your governments don't want to pay for something that large you kinda have to downsize.
Can't wait until Battle of Crécy Part 2: Agincourt
man I sure love being a French soldier stationed in Pòiters in 1356
Humor and learning. What could be better? Great video:)
*fighting wars mainly with aristocratic knights*
Edward III: we don't do that here
My personal disagreement with this episode:
you don't need opposable thumbs to either usa a Computer or a smart device...
claws dont mesh well with tech tho lol
Activate the subtitles! Activate the subtitles! There is going to be fun for this episode if at 0:30 the subtitles are a laughter worth.
Are you going to do the whole 100 years war or just the English victories at the beginnning? My feeling was that these are pretty well covered in comparison to the end of the war leading into the war of the roses.
You know....you guys should do drawings for RPGs. Like, I'd pay money to have a book of D&D characters drawn by the EC crew.
Yes
He Would bend the world to his will foreshadowing the British Empire
That drawing at 3:59 reminds me of a particularly recent meme format... ;)
As I'm typing this very moment, there's a meme on Reddit about this very scene. Wow
Me and the boys about to dunk on France
_Fire_
Aw that’s hot...that is hot
Englishmen: Who need allies...we have long bows💪😎🏹🏹
Peasants, a weapon tested through time and ages, proving to be reliable and effective. Truly, a weapon to surpass metal gear
Crowther's presentation is fun, but I think this oversells English military genius a bit. Dismounting to defend a strong position when outnumbered is hardly Hannibal-level tactics. I'd say French stupidity and disorganization is what eventually won the battle for Edward. Philip started the battle with most of his army still far away. As late as the morning after the battle, French stragglers were still arriving at the scene. Had Philip halted to gather his forces, he might well have won.
“Times up, let’s do this WAALLLLTTTEEEEEERRRRR MAAAANNNNNNYYYYYY”
For many reasons I’d side with the English in the 100 years war, mainly their use every man thing were even peasants were worth their weight in gold
7:53 I’m going to hell for laughing so hard at that 🤣
Brutal. Reminds me a bit of Formingy or Castillon.
The narrator politely evades the fact that Edward's tactic literally was a tactic of terror, murders, rapes and pillages...
love how the English teach the French time and time again that quality is better than quantity
how tho? france won this war, england only beat napoleon with prussia's help after he was weakened in russia, they definitely outnumbered the American colonials (and had loyalists too) but still lost the revolutionary war and then in both world wars the uk relied on support from the colonies and america's industry. love how the English teach everyone time and time again that relying on other people is easier
@@bigsmonk2428 Jesus Christ you're bad at history lad
@@bigsmonk2428
damn bro u didnt have to destroy him like that
intro-> 1337
I just burst out into laughter
No victory like the pragmatic English victory *God save the King intensifies*
French Advisor: How did you lose the battle of Crecy?!
King Philip: *Good Question*
Ok extra credits I love everything you do I wish I could do the 500 dollar patron again thanks for all you do my favorite channel or anything to watch most of my history I learn from you thanks!