To: SoFloFreeper
Failed to show the loss of France to England at Agincourt on Friday Oct 25th, 1415.
9 posted on
03/17/2014 5:58:32 PM PDT by
RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
No land truly changed hands at Agincourt.
The result of Henry's campaigns in France was that he forced Charles VI to make him rightful heir to the French throne.
However, Henry V died several months before Charles VI did.
Henry VI was only a few months old, and Charles VII, the son of Charles VI, successfully contested the succession - with the help of St. Joan of Arc.
Agincourt was very exciting, but it ultimately changed nothing.
To: RoosterRedux
Forgot to add: Even if Henry V had outlived Charles VI and, by some luck, had managed to assert his title to the French throne, France and England would still have been two separate kingdoms.
He would have been King Henry V of England and Henry II of France, just as King James I of England was also King James VI of Scotland.
To: RoosterRedux
Also, it didn't show the English acquisition of Gibraltar and Minorca in the Wars of the Spanish Succession and subsequent loss of Minorca to France at the start of the Seven Year's War.
But most fascinating of all were the tiny principalities which became modern Germany.
19 posted on
03/17/2014 6:59:43 PM PDT by
Vigilanteman
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