Dan Jones
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3,287 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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And then the English go on this remarkable series of victories.
And again, we've heard about them in the main episode.
You have Chrissie.
at sea winchelsea before that the choice and right up to 1360 when the treaty of brittany is signed where edward has very successfully used lawfare as we've discussed and warfare to to force a brilliant treaty i mean he gets almost everything he's really gunning for aquitaine massively expanded a bit of territory elsewhere held in full sovereignty we don't go in the details listeners can go back and listen to the those main episodes but
Suffice to say, he has this brilliant period of military success.
I wonder if you can just give us your take, as someone so immersed in this period, on why the English win and win and win and win in the 1340s, 1350s.
They know how it works.
So to what degree does personal leadership right at the top matter?
To what extent is it a determining factor in this war?
Well, this is an interesting point, isn't it?
Because, you know, if people have any sort of instant thoughts about the Hundred Years' War, certainly in England, it probably...
through the lens of Shakespeare and therefore through the lens of Henry V and therefore through the lens of Agincourt yeah now Agincourt and indeed Henry V are really quite exceptional aren't they because here you have a king Henry V who I mean you can tell me what you think but in my opinion does believe that he should be king of France yeah he really he's he's read as literal for all for a bunch of different reasons what Edward III was reading as figurative or at least sort of as tactical
And then you have this, I mean, the miraculous victory at Agincourt, somewhat a crazy sort of 2.0 or redux or whatever, but then a totally new strategy that the English managed to finance and pay for for a short time, which is the conquest of Normandy.
Unlike the tactics that have been used by Edward III and everyone else before him, in the middle of a French civil war, pretty much, due to the insanity
Right.
So this iconic moment, quote unquote, of this conflict is actually probably the weirdest and least representative of
We'll talk about it afterwards.
We'll see about that.
But there's this moment, I don't want to fast forward too fast, but
if we go to let's say 1429 siege of
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