The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years, with various truces and peace treaties the fighting still went on over 84 years. If I was to list every battle and skirmish, I would probably be here as long.

What I have done is listed the most important battles.

1337, November, Battle of Cadzand, the start of the wars. The Flemish defenders of the island were thrown into disorder by the first use of the English longbow on Continental soil. It was a minor battle. It consisted of a raid on the Flemish island of Cadzand, designed to provoke a reaction and battle from the local garrison and so improve morale in England and amongst King Edward III's continental allies by providing his army with an easy victory.

1340, June 24th, Battle of Sluys. Edward III destroys the Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders ensuring England will not be invaded and that the majority of the war will be fought in France.

1345, October 21st, Battle of Auberoche, a longbow victory by Henry, Earl of Derby against a French army at Auberoche in Gascony. A small force of 1,500 men under Derby routed an French army of 7,000.

1346, August 26th, Battle of Crecy. English longbow men soundly defeat French cavalry near the river Somme in Picardy. The combination of new weapons and tactics have caused many historians to consider this battle the beginning of the end of chivalry. Crecy was a battle in which a much smaller English army of 12,000 to 16,000 (depending on source), commanded by Edward III of England and heavily outnumbered by Philip VI of France's force of 35,000 to 100,000 (depending on source), was victorious as a result of superior weaponry and tactics, demonstrating the importance of the modern military concept of fire power. The effectiveness of the English longbow, used en masse, was proven against armoured knights, contrary to the conventional wisdom of the day which held that archers would be ineffective and be butchered when the armoured units closed in.

1346, September 4th to 1347, August 3rd, Siege of Calais. Calais falls under English control.

1350, August 29th, Les Espagnols sur Mer, English fleet defeats Castilian fleet in a close fight.

1351, March 26th, Combat of the Thirty, Thirty French Knights from Chateau Josselin under Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English Knights under Pembroke and Robert Bramborough. While the combat did not have any significant effect on the outcome of the Breton succession, it was considered by contemporaries to be an example of the finest chivalry.

French army under De Nesle defeated by English under Bentley at Mauron in Brittany, De Nesle killed.

1356, September 19th, Battle of Poitiers, Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunged into chaos. The Battle of Poitiers was fought between the Kingdoms of England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years' War: Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. The Black Prince's army of 7,000 destroys the French Army of 20,500. 1364, September 29th, Battle of Auray, end of Breton War of Succession Du Gueschlin captured.

1367, April 3rd, Battle of Nájera (Navarette),The Black Prince defeats a Castilian/French army at Nájera in Castile.

1372, June 22th, Battle of La Rochelle, A Castilian-French fleet defeats the English fleet, leading to loss of dominance at sea and French piracy and coastal raids. 1380, A Castilian fleet commanded by Fernando Sánchez de Tovar sacks and burns English port towns.

1385, Jean de Vienne, having successfully strengthened the French naval situation, lands an army in Scotland, but is forced to retreat.

1415, October 25th, The Battle of Agincourt, English longbow men under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albert. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, Henry V's army of 5,900 defeats the French army of between 20,000 and 30,000. Wiping out most of the French nobility, who were so eager to avenge the defeats of Crecy and Poiters, that they charged in the vanguard. 1416, English defeat numerically greater French army at Valmont near Harfleur.

1417, Naval victory in the River Seine under Bedford.

1418, July 31st to 1419, January 19th, Siege of Rouen, Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy.

1419, Battle of La Rochelle, Castilian fleet defeats Anglo-Hanseatic fleet.

1421, March 22th, The Battle of Bauge, The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat an outmanoeuvred English force commanded by the Duke of Clarence.

1423, July 31st, Battle of Cravant, The French and Scottish army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.

1424, August 17th, The Battle of Vernuil, The Scots forces are decisively defeated.

1426, March 6th, A French besieging army under Arthur de Richemont is dispersed by a small force under Sir Thomas Rempstone in "The Rout of St James" in Brittany.

1428, October 12th, to 1429, May 8th, The Siege of Orléans, English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury, the Earl of Suffolk, and Talbot (Earl of Shrewsbury) lay siege to Orleans, and are forced to withdraw after a relief army accompanied by Joan of Arc arrives at the city, and the beginning of the end for the English..

1429, February 12th, The Battle of the Herrings, An English force under Sir John Fastolf defeats the French and Scottish armies.

1429, July 17th, The Battle of Patay, In a reverse of Agincourt/Crecy, a French army under La Hire, Richemont, Joan of Arc, and other commanders break through English archers under Lord Talbot and then pursue and mop up the other sections of the English army, killing or capturing about half (2,200) of their troops. The Earl of Shrewsbury (Talbot) and Hungerford are captured.

1435, Battle of Gerbevoy, La Hire defeats an English force under Arundel.

1435 The French take Paris.

1450, April 15-Battle of Formigny, A French force under the Comte de Clermont defeats an English force under Thomas Kyriell.

1451, The French forces conquer Gascony.

1453, July 17th, The Battle of Castillon, Jean Bureau defeats Talbot to end the Hundred Years' War. This was also the first battle in European history where the use of cannon was a major factor in determining the victor

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