What are some historical battles who had a huge impact on History, that are impressive by their symbolic power or just what happened afterwards ?
I'd say the battle of Castillon is pretty powerful : The french army was a modern army, using a conscription system (The franc-archers), a permanent army (The compagnie d'ordonnance) and artillery to crush a medieval army. Basically, France ceased to be a feudal regime, from now on, it was the King who was the ultimate power of France, and he based that power on his military that only he could afford, not any duke or count. The battle finished the Hundred Years War, with France taking back Aquitaine forever, making sure that England would never again be able to exist in continental Europe.
Apparently transmitted paper-making from China to the Muslims and the West.
Andrew Powell
The first Arab siege of Constantinople was far more influential because not only it stopped Arabs from getting into Europe bit showed that they aren't invincible.
Lincoln Phillips
Always wondered what made paper special.
I mean there's parchment and papyrus?
Jordan Bennett
R u srs? >Parchment Need to kill an animal to make that. Instant-expense. >Papyrus Literally a fabric. Shit must be woven.
Ayden Roberts
Also papyrus must be imported, making it way more expensive.
Julian Torres
Castilon was just the last nail in the coffin. More of a symbolic victory than anything else. The reforms were put in motion years before
Ian Miller
>making sure that England would never again be able to exist in continental Europe. Thats wrong. They got Dunkirk for some years after teaming up with the french against the spanish.
Oliver Anderson
Written by a bong and yet litteraly 8/15 directly involved the French
Dominic Howard
Actually, the wiki page of the battle of Castillon itself, notes how they still kept Calais.
>The Battle of Castillon was a battle fought on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later Castillon-la-Bataille). A decisive French victory, it is considered to mark the end of the Hundred Years' War. As a result of the battle, the English lost all landholdings in France, except Calais.
The First Battle of Mohács is often considered as the point the point where Hungarian luck went to shit. Turkish and Habsburg occupations can all be traced back to that battle, but if you ask me, the death of Matthias is when Hungarian luck started plummeting.
Robert Russell
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Cooper Cruz
>England would never again be able to exist in continental Europe. Uh, they still exist in continental Europe.
Cameron Carter
Spaniards failing Europe once again
Jeremiah Reed
Battle of Tours stopped muslims from invading through Iberia.
The 4th Crusade/Manzikert sealed the fate of the Byzantine/Roman empire. The Kommenos dynasty getting overthrown didn't help.
The battle of Varna could have saved the Byzantines but it led to Turk domination of the Balkans.
Christopher Watson
Austerlitz
Ryder Wright
Actually, that happened when a Frenchman became king of Spain.
Brayden Anderson
It's symbolic m8 they had pretty much won the war already.
France didn't stop being feudal either, it would take another half a century before the French Kings could finally call themselves absolute kings.
I wouldn't overstate the importance of the artillery either nor would I say Franc-Archers is conscription since it was voluntary and only applied to like one in 500 people. Besides that it was more or less abolished within 30 years.
Jackson Lewis
iirc a Frenchman is still on the """""""throne""""""" of Spain
Ayden Gomez
Were the Muslims actually interested in conquering France?
IIRC they only invaded Spain because the Visigoths were going through a civil war. Even the "invasion" of France was just a couple of raids. Hell, they even let Asturias chill in the mountains because they couldn't be bothered to subdue them (which bit them in the ass 800 years later).
Vienna and Lepanto marked the end of the Ottoman threat to Europe.
Actium led to the birth of the Roman Empire.
Trafalgar made the British the undisputed rulers of the sea.
Manzikert gave birth to Turkey.
Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
Jacob Rivera
That could explain why the English are still on the continent?
Jaxson Myers
Western France is some of the most fertile land in Europe, places like Poland and Ukraine weren't well cultivated at this point.
Nathan Gutierrez
England held parts in Normandy etc. on and off for many years after that. But nice try.
John Nelson
Wow, you really got me there, Goya
Julian Price
>50,000 men >just a couple raids
Justin Morgan
Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and to a lesser extent the Siege of Osaka 14-15 years later.
Ended over a century of civil war in Japan and ushered in a period of peace and prosperity which lasted for several centuries thereafter.
Siege of Constantinople in I think 1453 because it spelled the permadeath of the Byzantine Empire. They put up one hell of a last stand but it was the end of an era.
Others for me are Cannae and Waterloo. Cannae was an absolute slaughter of the Romans and one of the finest military victories in ancient history. Waterloo was the permanent end of Napoleon which also to me is an example of a battle which ended an era.
Cooper Thompson
No one's invincible to getting napalm'd
Ayden Reed
What about a battle that affected GEOGRAPHY.
Alexander's siege of Tyre in 322BC had him made a land bridge to attack the Tyrians, and the bridge can still be seen today.
Charles Turner
Fourth Crusade sacking Byzantine. Led to the fall of the final Roman Empire and the rise of the West.
Nathan Barnes
>Arab siege of Constantinople >Δεν είμαι εγώ starts playing
Ryan James
Less of a battle, more of a massacre, but the Tlaxcallan sacking of Cholula. That's when Cortes knew for sure that the gloves were definitely off, and that these dudes were savages with how they treated their enemies.
Samuel Morris
>Actium lead to the birth of the Roman Empire Nice meme. Rome was already an empire almost two centuries before that.
Brandon Lee
Battle of Chamdo, as without Tibet or aka the up flow control of many rivers and a buffer state against India, I highly doubt geopolitically China can be as strong as it is today.
