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    Battle of Halidon Hill, 1333 – England Awakens!



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    🚩 Battle of Halidon Hill (1333) played a big part in the development of English military tactics. Edward III would later use the same defensive setup to confound the mounted chivalry of France at the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers. This was Edward III’s first battle and the only one that he fought in England. At Halidon Hill he witnessed the strength of the defensive combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms already used to great effect by Edward Balliol the previous year at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in Scotland.

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

    🎼 Music:
    EpidemicSound
    Filmstro
    Round drums – Kevin MacLeod

    📚 Sources:
    The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation (2006), by Ian Mortimer, Published by Jonathan Cape. ISBN: 9780224073011.
    ‘The Siege of Berwick, 1333’ The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 129, Part 1 (Apr., 1961), pp. 19-42, by Ranald Nicholson. Published by: Edinburgh University Press.
    The Greatest Traitor: the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer Ruler of England 1327-1330 (2010) by Ian Mortimer. Published by: Vintage. ISBN: 9781407066394.
    The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346 (1913), by Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir, bart., 1845-1937, tr; Wilson, James, Vicar of Dalston.
    Hundred Years War Vol 1: Trial by Battle (2010) by Jonathan Sumption. Published by Faber and Faber Ltd. ISBN: 980-0-571-26658-6.
    Chronicles (1978) by Jean Froissart, Edited and Translation by Geoffrey Brereton. Published by Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-141-90456-6.
    True Chronicles (1904) by Jean le Bel. Link: https://archive.org/details/le-bel-chronique-de-jean-le-bel-v-1
    The orygynale cronykil of Scotland. By Andrew of Wyntoun. Edited by David Laing: https://archive.org/details/orygynalecronyki03andruoft/mode/2up

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    1. @HistoryMarche on

      🚩 Give Lingopie a try using my link https://learn.lingopie.com/historymarche and get a special discount!

      🚩 Battle of Halidon Hill (1333) played a big part in the development of English military tactics. Edward III would later use the same defensive setup to confound the mounted chivalry of France at the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers. This was Edward III's first battle and the only one that he fought in England. At Halidon Hill he witnessed the strength of the defensive combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms already used to great effect by Edward Balliol the previous year at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in Scotland.

    3. @Boric78 on

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    6. @luongo7886 on

      Why didn't the Scots use their calvary to deal with the English longbow men? And why didn't they outflank the English?

      Edward II was a weak and incompetent homosexual.

    7. @zetectic7968 on

      Oh dear the narrator strikes again. You would think a Scot would know that Moray is pronounced Murray and that Seton is See-ton not set-on.
      Good video otherwise about a battle a lot of people are unaware

    11. @DatDamnLlama on

      I see a common thread in these battles.
      A lack of patience seems to be the undoing of most militaries of the sword and spear era wars.
      I know they were trying to save a town in this case, but leaving the marsh into an arrow filled killing field was a pretty dumb move.
      A Hannibal like move to send a force in initially and retreat to the marsh, spurring an advance from the young King, would've allowed for an ambush to be set where the long bowmen would have been useless.

    15. @pablopablo3834 on

      If Scotland instead looked for an Alliance and merging with England and Wales to then jointly invade France they would have done so with ease. Fighting and looting in Northern England was moronic and pointless when France was so much more wealthy.

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