The weaponry revolution

When the Hundred Years’ War began the armies that dominated on European battlefields were led by feudal warrior-aristocrats. These men and their followers usually made up the martial core of an army, which would take to the field in a time when heavily armoured cavalry charges could make or break a battle. However, this would soon change as the conflict saw advances in technology and weapons alongside new battlefield tactics that would be the beginning of a weaponry revolution that would come to shape Europe.

The English came to dominate the early engagements with the fearsome longbow, whose range and armour penetration were the bane of the French heavy cavalry. Infantry also began to be utilised by the English with weapons like