History on Fire: Joan of Arc / Hundred Years War

[katarn]

Any normal country when a young girl hears voices in her head she is treated as the nutter she clearly is and kept away from any important decision making.
In France they put her at the head of the army, follow her into battle and eventually make her a Saint.
No wonder the snail eaters are so rubbish at war...

For being rubbish at war, they managed to kick you lot off the continent that time.

[Speaker to Animals]

They literally needed God to help them.

[GloryofGreece]

Best book sources I could find so far believe it or not Twain's comes highly recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/19744 ... 0DER&psc=1

and modern scholarship with this one
https://www.amazon.com/Joan-Arc-Story-R ... 8&qid=&sr=

[Montegriffo]

Any normal country when a young girl hears voices in her head she is treated as the nutter she clearly is and kept away from any important decision making.
In France they put her at the head of the army, follow her into battle and eventually make her a Saint.
No wonder the snail eaters are so rubbish at war...

For being rubbish at war, they managed to kick you lot off the continent that time.

Eventually, after 80 years of losing battle after battle.
Wasn't god or Joan that finally got rid of us either, it was the development of bloody canons making castles obsolete.

[TheReal_ND]

They literally needed God to help them.

Even God hates the eternal """Anglo"""

[Montegriffo]

Pah, everyone knows that God is an Englishman. That's why we don't have earthquakes or active volcanoes.

[Hastur]

Perfidious Albion had it coming. Their arrogant Kings needed to be taken down a notch. Magna Carta wasn't enough.

Thank God the English didn't win. It might have prevented the ideas that became the foundation for the liberal west from ever taking form.

[Montegriffo]

Oh the English certainly did win. 80 or 90 years of raping the French countryside, ransoming European nobles for huge sums of money, pillaging the gold,silver and valuable weapons and armour of fallen knights.
Fortunes were made and ordinary men built castles and huge family dynasties back in England on the strength of their adventures in France.
Then there was the wholesale death of the aristocracy of the near continent. Crecy alone accounted for the death of 5 kings, 30 odd earls and around 300 top noblemen.
By the time of the French victories in the last 20 years or so of the hundred years war France was a shadow of its former self and weakened to the point it couldn't challenge English supremacy again until the time of Napoleon.

[Hastur]

The biggest win was that they got thrown off the continent and could focus on their proper destiny - ruling the seas.

[Montegriffo]

It took another 100 years to throw us off the continent.
England held Calais until 1558.