Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did we lose the Hundred Years
War (HYW)
- Weak military leadership
- Somerset did not properly organise our defenses
like at Rouen our major capital for the area and
we, therefore, lost when we shouldn't have.
- French recovery
- The french had an astounding recovery due to many things
but mainly due to the fact they had a larger economy than
England and so had more money.
- English Financial problems
- With no money, we were forced to pursue a line
of peace and lost a lot of territories and Henry
became very unpopular.
- We were beginning to lose so the Government was
reluctant to lend more money if we were going to carry
on losing.
- We had also been on many campaigns which
are expensive and so slowly but surely cost us
a lot of money.
- This all meant we could only send 2500
men over which was not enough to
stop the French forces.
- The weakness of Henry the sixth
- His weakness meant that we lost our ally in Burgundy
- He kept allowing the treaty to be increased in length
which allows the French more time to recover