Bows Against Guns: Welcome to the Battle of Formingny
Warfare History Network
History, Europe
The Hundred Years’ War ended, and the age of gunpowder dawned.
In the fall of 1447, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, was not a happy man. He was lieutenant general of France and Guyenne, a kind of viceroy who oversaw English possessions in France, and he was also a powerful and rapacious feudal magnate in his own right. King Henry VI had recently written him, ordering the duke to abide by the terms of an Anglo-French truce and give up the province of Maine... Читать дальше...