Battle of Castillon, (July 17, 1453), the concluding battle of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England.
The French had won Guyenne and Gascony back from English rule in 1451, but their long-unfamiliar regime soon proved objectionable to many of the inhabitants, who therefore welcomed the arrival at Bordeaux of an English army under the Earl of Shrewsbury (John Talbot) in October 1452. In the following summer French forces, powerfully armed with Jean Bureau’s recently introduced field artillery, approached for a second reconquest of Guyenne—to start with the siege of the pro-English stronghold of Castillon, on the lower Dordogne River upstream from Libourne. They fortified their camp outside Castillon very strongly; and Shrewsbury, having advanced against them with 1,000 horsemen some way ahead of his 5,000 foot soldiers, attacked the camp prematurely in the mistaken belief that it was being abandoned. The French cannon inflicted heavy losses on the dismounted cavalry; and though some of Shrewsbury’s infantry came up during the hour of battle, the English troops were finally routed by a sortie. Shrewsbury was killed, the garrison in Castillon surrendered the next day, and the capitulation of Bordeaux in October restored Guyenne and Gascony to France and ended the war.
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Those borders at first looks like some one just scribbled on a map lol.
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Only few of us know how much work this video requires…
Great job!
great video, i have never seen this battle animated before
nice video
Thank you for this video! We hear too little about French military victories! 🙂
Joan of Arc prophesied that the English would lose the war in France.
very good video.
Congratulation for your excellent pronounciation of the french names, however hard it is ! (i sometimes miss). A sad story for lord Talbot and his son . The story of the one hundred years battles tells that attack is inferior to defense in this period.
Thank you for the video. I never heard of the Battle of Castillon. Such a defeat for the English.
Awesome video, as always. Is there a way to support your work? Buy me a coffe, Patreon or anything else?
Also, just a quick question/suggestion: During the visualisation of the first english attack (app 5:00 – 6:33), don't you think that the french cannonade would have somehow disrupted the formation of the attacker, which should hence look a bit more rugged/distorted, than it does in the video?
TY to have the courage to also speak about some English lost battles! This is rare from the English historians and I respect you very much for that!
Guillaume – City of Tours – France
This is the English method: hey didille let's go up the middle
Too many mistakes. Good effort anyway.
Liberated? Silly and inaccurate phrase as Normandy and Aquitaine were ancestral lands of the Plantagenets for hundreds of years. You are applying the modern concept of nationalism incorrectly to a period of time centuries before it was developed. The Bordelaise feared the French conquest at the time.