The Battle of Crécy in 1346 marked a turning point in medieval warfare and England’s rise as a military force. Heavily outnumbered, the English leveraged disciplined tactics, strong defensive ...

Divine voices guided a young girl to lead the French against the English. Burned as a heretic in 1431, the Maid of Orléans was both shaped and destroyed by the religious fervor and politics.

Photography for the first time captured the brutality of war, and these images stirred up considerable outcries among the English and French public. Due to the obscure politics driving the war and the ...