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French Recovery after Agincourt
After the disastrous defeat at Agincourt in 1415 France suffered long years of lost territory and division;…
Timeline
- 1440–1444Île-de-France · Île-de-FranceAfter Agincourt France lost vast territories; by the 1430s Joan of Arc and Charles VII gradually turned the tide. In the 1440s the standing army was reorganized, giving France the military capacity to launch systematic counteroffensives against English-held territories.
- 1449–1450Normandy · NormandyAfter French forces rose in Rouen and elsewhere in 1449, Charles VII's army entered Normandy; decisive victories such as the Battle of Formigny in 1450 cost the English their hold on Normandy, recovering France's greatest territorial losses since Agincourt.
- 1451–1453Gascony · GasconyFrench forces continued south to recover Gascony, defeating the English at the Battle of Castillon in 1453; with French territory essentially unified except for Calais, the Hundred Years' War ended in French victory, completing the national recovery after Agincourt.
Sources
- Battle of Agincourt https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Agincourt
- The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300–c.1450 — Christopher Allmand (1988)