What changes made the fighting in the Hundred Years' War different?

Answer 1

The massive and innovative use of the longbow by the English who developed also a new tactic on the battle fields.

The improved and large use of the artillery by the French during the last period of the war.

Answer 2

Most of the effects of the Hundred Years' War took place in France. In 2 major battles (Crecy and Agincourt) a bunch of British peasants absolutely decimated the French nobility (knights in heavy armor on horseback). This had several repercussions. The French aristocracy was so weakened that it never fully recovered and this ushered in a new era of shared politics and the end of the feudal economic system. These changes eventually led to the class struggles that took place several hundred years later during the French Revolution. The other obvious change brought about was the end of the armored nobleman on horseback with lots of armor. For over 800 years, the mounted knight was the supreme weapon on the battlefield. However, the British longbow changed all of that. Warfare tends to stay very stagnant for long periods then suddenly become completely changed by a short term series of events. The Hundred Years' war is one of thos epivotal events.

Answer 3

The fire gained the predominance on the shock.

In detail:

From the early stage of the war until (about) the end of fourteenth century, the English Longbowmen, who were able to fire up to 10-12 arrows a minute with great accuracy, annihilated the charges of heavy armoured French cavalry. Then the French knights and men-at-arms gave up the horses, with exception of a few units, attacking on foot with but little outcome, in spite of their superiority in numbers.

The last stage of the war saw another turning point related to the fire: that of the great development of the artillery carried out especially by the French, who massively deployed cannon, behind field fortification, also in pitched battles.

That meant that the English were in turn outgunned by the French fire and their superior numbers and the castles, on which the English had based at that time their strategy, lost a great part of their importance and power being their walls subject to be easily demolished by the artillery.

Answer 4

It saw the superiority of fire against impact: showers of arrows broke the impetus of the cavalry charges, inflicting huge losses on the attackers.

Therefore the fighting occurred more frequently on foot, marking the beginning of the dominance of the infantry and the demise of the medieval armored cavalry.

In the latter stages of the war, the increased use of cannons and small arms, especially by the French accentuated even more such dominance.

The isolated castles as fortifications became obsolete and relatively easy to conquer, if they were not supported by mobile units, operating outside.

Answer 5

FRENCH:

-Heavy armor

-could not move on horseback

-in water = drown

-All short range weapons

ENGLISH:

-Long bows

-Connon (Catapault) possibly

Answer 6

It changed by all sneak attacks they don't have anymore stand up and fight in a line they hide and take you down from all around in an unorganised way

Answer 7

The use of the longbow and artillery.