Hundred Years War, Invasion of France, 1415

Surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. Militarily, it saw the introduction of new weapons and tactics which eroded the older system of feudal armies dominated by heavy cavalry in Western Europe. The first standing armies in Western Europe since the time of the Western Roman Empire were introduced for the war, thus changing the role of the peasantry. For all this it is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in the history of medieval warfare. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913

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1410s 1415 Conscripted Conscription Craftsmen Fifteenth Surgeons

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