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by trashcity on November 26th, 2004
The last significant battle took place at Castillon in July 1453. The English Earl of Shrewsbury had landed near Bordeaux the previous October, largely to the delight of the locals, but King Charles VII of France gathered an army and marched towards Bordeaux the following summer.
After defeating an advance guard, Shrewsbury received word the French were fleeing. He charged the French camp, only to find this was not the case, and he was actually outnumbered 6-to-1. During the subsequent rout, his horse was killed by cannon fire, and he was trapped underneath it until he was spotted and killed by a French soldier.
Following Henry VI's episode of insanity in 1453 and the subsequent Wars of the Roses, the English were no longer able to pursue their claim to France and lost all their land (except for Calais). However, England did not formally renounce rights to the French throne until 1800.
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