Day: 19 September 2016

The Battle of Poitiers

King Jean II of France met Edward, the Black Prince of Wales in battle at Poitiers on 19 September 1356 in one of the most decisive English victories of the Hundred Years’ War. It really sucked to be French during the Hundred Years War, and the decades before and after the Battle of Poitiers were… Read more The Battle of Poitiers