Henry VI's failure in France
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- Henry VI's failure in France
- Battle of Agincourt
- fought by Henry V in 1415
- 30,000 French soldiers and only 7000 English soldiers
- English archers killed large numbers of the French
- Narrow battlefield
- French couldn't utilise their larger numbers
- English victory
- 400 English casualties and 6000 French casulaties
- 1415-1420 Henry V won large areas of French Territory
- Treaty of Troyes
- 1420
- United England and France through Henry V's marriage to Princess Katharine of France
- Made Henry or his son the next King of France
- Disinherited the French heri
- Treaty of Tours
- 1444
- Suffolk negotiated a marriage between Henry V and Margaret of Anjou
- Suffolk agreed to return Anjou to France, secretly gave back Maine as well
- Short-term peace
- Led to the loss of the French empire
- March 1449 English took the Breton fortress of Fougéres
- French attacked Normandy
- Won the Battle of Rouen in October 1449
- Won the Battle of Formigny in April 1450
- Loss of Normandy and Gascony
- Duke of Burgundy had an alliance with Henry V
- By 1435 Burgundy allied with France instead
- French King, Charles VII, was much more competent
- In the 1440s English Crown debts increasing
- Commanders were going unpaid
- Crown lands had to be sold
- 1440 York appointed Lieutenant of France
- Capable, but Somerset led an independent campaign, which failed
- Took men and money away from York
- Led to his defeat at Dieppe in 1443
- Capable, but Somerset led an independent campaign, which failed
- French attacked Normandy in 1449
- Response to an English attack
- By 1450 most of Normandy had been taken
- Response to an English attack
- Results
- In 1449 there was a violent reaction against Suffolk and his supporters
- January 1450 the Bishop of Chichester was killed by a mob
- In February, Suffolk was charged with treason
- Exiled and murdered
- Cade Rebellion began in 1450
- Deaths of Lord Saye and William Crowmer, Sheriff of Kent
- Duke of Burgundy had an alliance with Henry V
- Battle of Agincourt
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