England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War

\n\nENGLAND, FRANCE AND AQUITAINE\nFrom Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War\n\nENGLAND, FRANCE AND AQUITAINE\nFrom Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War\n\nThis is a military history with technical detail, linked to high politics, courtly intrigue, dynastic ambition, economic interest (wine trade and Bordeaux). The story revolves around the death of two Kings, Henry V of England, soon after his military triumphs, and Charles VI of France, in 1422. Both had historic claims to the \u2018French fiefs\u2019. Henry was succeeded by Richard II, and Charles was succeeded by Charles VII. The contrast could hardly have been greater between Richard, a diffident, scholarly and religious figure, in an age when kings were expected to be aggressive leaders and military commanders; and Charles \u2013 an able politician, soldier and, in modern parlance, a \u2018hard man\u2019, who embodied the 15th century concept of kingship. Intermittent but constant warfare continued until Engli;