I'm astonished that the BBC commentator said 'English' longbows?!! The Welsh archers won the legendary battles, and anyway it was the Angevin Plantagenets against the Valois family, Paris against Aquitaine, both claiming the throne of France to succeed the Capetians; it was a dynastic war of succession; only after the Angevins lost the war and most of their territory on the continent did the family moved to England, which they had ruled 'till then as absentee landlords, French was the common language of the main protagonists on both sides. It wasn't England against France as is conveniently taught; on the Valois side there were Castille; Scotland; Genoa; Majorca; Bohemia; Crown of Aragon; Brittany (Blois): On the Plantagenet side: Burgundy; Aquitaine; Brittany (Montfort); Portugal; Navarre; Flanders; Hainault; Luxembourg; Holy Roman Empire. The Welsh after losing their independence split between the two, the South Walian archers chose to fight for the Plantagenets, whilst the fight for freedom continued on the side of the Valois family. England v France is a rugby match, not history.
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