The important thing about the English army in the Hundred Years War was that it was not a feudal army. Feudal obligation only applied to service in England. If the King wanted troops to serve overseas he had to pay them, thus making them professional soldiers. This meant that a peasant bowman could return to England with pay and plunder and enter the money economy, rather than live as a subsistence farmer working his Lords land.
Ponzi scheme just like that rosy cross like symbol next to your name . . . . yes I'm a three decade researcher of secret societies and their simplistic / methodical control that radiates from the global seat of world government . . . . Switzerland . . . . yes the Templar stronghold .
Excellent point. I wonder how many peasants made good money (and plunder which they could sell) from serving overseas and came back to no longer need to work the land? What place in society would they have Michael? Was there a tier of people that were professional soldiers or was this such a rare occurrence that it required no big change to the system? Lots of questions lol😊
Probably plenty of inmates in the king's dungeon to replace them. "Here's what I'm offering you lot. Work my land. You get a roof, meals, & fresh air. Or rot in the dungeon, maybe hang. Hmmm?"
@@chrisdooley1184 try here was definitely professional soldiers who in some cases went country to country serving all over Europe they also say there wasn’t a home in England that didn’t have something in it plundered from France
I'm sure you already know this. But I think it's cool that Sargeant, much like Knight, originally meant servant, and both became terms used to describe professional soldiers. The use of Sargeants to drill, oversee, and discipline leavied men and conscripts, is what lead to the modern practice of having non-commisioned officers.
Knight comes from the Englisc word for a boy servant (cniht - knave comes from the same word and it is similar to modern German for a boy - knabe). The land value holding for a Norman knight was the same as that for a pre-Conquest thane and I have often wondered if the change from "thane" to "knight" came from the English taking the piss out of their new Norman masters by calling them "servant boy".
Imagine your history teacher entering the class room in full mail battle dress, sword, bow and arrows handy. In my schooling days way back in the 70s that would have been possible, nowadays that would sound a Terrorist Alert on the highest level and Kevin would be in the headlines by lunch after the school lock down would have been ended.
I get up in the morning, just before I go to the office, grab a cup of coffee and watching these videos. There's always something new and interesting. Thanks Kevin
🏴Really have a calmness that comes over me here on this channel...An authentic Englishman dressed to the period, in his great hall telling tales from the old days...
Really get into it my friend its long and interesting. We fought each other the Irish the Scottish the Welsh the French. No wonder the English are not liked haha. Like we care. Anyway its really interesting.
Thanks for another history lesson, Kevin. The command structure breakdown is still similar to todays, just with the brigade or division commander instead of the king. As a veteran of the US Army, and yourself of the British Army, we can appreciate discipline. Cheers from Texas.
@@thodan467 I don't script my videos, so sometimes forget to mention things. It's interesting though when you talk about moral, from what I can glean, it was pretty good and in the face of defeat, instead of misery and running away, it was stoic and stand your ground. Hope that helps. I think I mention a little something about moral at the end of my 'camp life' video.
Great explanation on a topic that surprisingly little is readily available i orit. Interesting to see the importation of French into the medieval rank system - vingt = 20, cent = 100, and mille = 1000.
Hello from central Indiana USA! Love this channel. I first watched Kevin giving a tour of a castle. I've been keen ever since. These videos are so well done and the passion is obvious. Keep doing your thing, History Squad!
It won't be long, before I got a doctor's degree in medieval times ...thanks to the best teacher in the world 👌 Many many thanks for showing and please keep up the good work 👍
This was extremely interesting to me. I always had thought that a bunch of somewhat autonomous groups of people just kind of milled about the battlefield after having a brief planning session before the battle. Cool
An army without officers but complete with NCO’s can survive temporarily but an army without NCO’s and full compliment of officers will crumble immediately.
Very good video, Kevin. Always learn something new. Apologies to your ancestors, as my mothers family came over with William the Bastard in 1066. My fathers family was in Wales at the time. Take care.
It’s so cool how you know all of this! I’ve seen multiple history videos and more than one of them have said that I quote “ we do not . Know how they controlled the English Army any longer.” I knew that had to be bullshit this sounds quite accurate. It reminds me a lot of how the Romans did it with the centurions. Awesome video Kevin keep it up! ❤️🤟
Fascinating video, Sir. I served in my old country's army as an infantryman. I learned somewhere that the word infantry came from the word infant. The peasants who made up the body of the army were considered the children of their lords, hence, infantry.
I've been wondering this exact question. Except I'm specifically wondering about 1066 and the command structure at Stamford Bridge and Hastings. Thumbs up as usual Kevin! Rock on!
Very good description of a complex structure. It’s surprising to see the similarities between this and the classical Ottoman army of the 1500’s; they too were very bureaucratic and rank oriented but maybe more centralised than this example
I love the video. Simple, straight, to the point. I do wonder what the differences in social structure were in Saxon England prior to the Norman conquest. I know the Anglos lived in what was once called the Danelaw and I heard that the peasants there paid rent in coin or grain instead of doing a set number of days working the lord's land. I read on wiki that back in Saxon times, the King would travel from village to village to collect food rent which would feed him and his massive entourage as well as do his duty of settling justice and hearing pleas.
It’s actually very similar to how the British battalions of the black powder era are formed. You’d have 10 companies in a battalion. Each company to be split down into two platoons. A company would be commanded by a captain and his aide a lieutenant and two sergeants with corporals spread through the ranks - I think 1 for every 8-10 men. As such in a platoon your have 1 Officer, 1 senior NCO and 5-6 junior NCOs who helped keep the ranks dressed during battle. When as a company you’d have 2 officers (1 senior, and 1 junior with maybe a junior ensign attached usually to learn and gain experience from those reliable officers), 2 sergeants and 10-12 corporals. Formed into full battalion strength you’d have 1 lieutenant colonel, 10 captains, 12 lieutenants (2 usually as assistants to the battalion commander), usually 4-6 ensigns (you’ll always have a pair to carry the colours and a secondary pair to assist the battalion commander and maybe a secondary couple to assist also depending on the needs of the battalion), down from there your looking at 26ish sergeants (your standard 20x plus a battalion sergeant major, plus a pair to guard the colours and a colour-sergeant to command the colour party, and a band-sergeant major to command keep tally over the drummers and musicians that help direct the battalion), your 100+ corporals who’s keep the discipline amongst the ranks during battle and also known as “file fillers/pushers” as they were expected to be the ones to drag/push rankers back into file to close up gaps, and all this would be in a battalion expected to be around 1000+ strong - tho never usually that much on actual campaign due to casualties.
Thank you very much for a great history lesson in rank structure in medieval times. Love it! This is just what I have been looking for, now that Im building my HYW-miniature army. Hope you do some videos in the future with same beautiful detail about the English Civil War. 👍
I am so happy for this! It's information that needs to be disseminated and is poorly covered on RUclips! When I was in university, an undergrad, I got to lecture on the topic of feudalism and manorialism... And the difference between them in economics and politics as different social structures. I do believe there's a university or three with papers of mine on the topic. Never got to be a professor, but I had good faculty support and was encouraged to lecture on topics I knew in detail. If I thought enough people were interested, I'd actually make a YT video on the different political and economic systems of England from the late Anglo-Saxon period through early Anglo-Norman. I don't believe I've got the right disposition for that anymore, I've become a surly old vet and construction worker despite the education. I believe some excitement and eloquence in my verbal delivery has been lost. Verbosity, I definitely still have.
Fascinating stuff, Mr. Hicks. The leadership positions were named after the manpower strength of their command groups: "vint" from 20, "cent" from 100, and "mil" for 1,000.
Surely at the time of the Norman invasion, Normandy was a duchy that was in constant contention with France. They would not have considered themselves French, and in fact were of Norse heredity. They spoke French, but of a very different variety, in fact they still do to a lesser extent.
Yes, that's right and of course I know this, but for the ease of my international audience it's easier for their understanding to mention the French loosely in the way I did 👍🏻
Sir I served in the USMC learned discipline, We use to say to our drill instructors discipline is the instant will respect to authority self reliance and team work. I was in bootcamp back in 1986 sir I served 8 years.
While I've been loving your videos and remain grateful for all the facts and insights you relate I still feel obligated to point out that if the Normans hadn't invaded England you and I would never have been born to become fascinated by this period and what our ancestors were up to and where! Mine were on the west coast of Scotland and the Hebrides, before fleeing to the new world following the failed second Stewart restoration, so I might say the things about England you say about Normans.
I love these medieval battle breakdowns and I can't say how much it tickles me to hear "Cavalry" instead of "Calvary". I was armored cavalry and irks me to death to hear the wrong way.
@@michaelhowell2326 very little knowledge of 40k , only times I played I was given a dwarf crewed weapon that looked like a Flakvierling 38 but had the range of a pistol, but from my understanding of the lore that would fit even better, armored Calvary would fit 40k that is.
@@philvanderlaan5942 I love me some 40K but I didn't think about armored chaplains until you said but the Space Marines have characters called Chaplains. They are fully armored in power armor and can be pit in tanks.
@@michaelhowell2326 actually I was thinking of single or a small group of chaplains IN a modern tank unit , I didn’t even think of space marine chaplains BEING the tank unit until you said reminds me of Warhammer 40K .
Love to see you do the different types of peasants.today we lump them all together, but at the time there were several levels and you would be warned not to see there's reeves son with the villiens daughter.
Excellent video, while an amateur historian and relatively knowledgeable about the hundred year war, I did not know how the rank structure worked thanks for enlightening me.
Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thank you Kevin, I very much enjoyed that. I liked how the Roman legions organizing, influenced the command structure of mideval armies, influenced modern armed forces. The line goes on......Thank you once again, I loved the video, cheers Arthur
On the one hand I understand and firmly believe in the ability of all races, genders, and nationalities to produce both qualified and unqualified speakers on a topic. On the other hand I immediately knew this was a reliable source because of the accent.
I’m interested in Battle of Nasby living nearby. I drive around the country looking at history doing a bit of research at each place. The other day I was in Devizes a Royalist town. Cromwell sorted them out, then went to Nasby. I have found out the army marches about 15 to 20 miles a day so about 5 days to get to Northampton. The army must be supplied with food. This happened in June so no corn being harvested. Would they have lived on meat? Taken from villages and towns on the way?
Thank you for a peek through the medieval military keyhole. I would also love your opinion and knowledge on when this structure became the way armies were organized. Am particularly interested in Edward I who was constantly raising armies of thousands against the Welsh. Judging by his need for order and control, I'd think he would have organized his troops in similar fashion, or would that have been left to his barons? Thank you, from Iowa.
I will say that at the Battle of Agincourt, the English did have a not fully feudal system for gathering their army, as opposed to the French, who still relied heavily upon the Arierban, the French royal army summoned by the King.
Am I correct in thinking you are describing what the Canadian government and the Dutch government want to do? Take the land back from the farmers effectively making a modern feudal system?
Nice, 20 men isn’t too much to handle and the power chain is well proportioned. I suppose that’s why in table top war games most units are 20 models strong, for the rank and file games anyway. Thank you for sharing.
The important thing about the English army in the Hundred Years War was that it was not a feudal army. Feudal obligation only applied to service in England. If the King wanted troops to serve overseas he had to pay them, thus making them professional soldiers. This meant that a peasant bowman could return to England with pay and plunder and enter the money economy, rather than live as a subsistence farmer working his Lords land.
Ponzi scheme just like that rosy cross like symbol next to your name . . . . yes I'm a three decade researcher of secret societies and their simplistic / methodical control that radiates from the global seat of world government . . . . Switzerland . . . . yes the Templar stronghold .
Excellent point. I wonder how many peasants made good money (and plunder which they could sell) from serving overseas and came back to no longer need to work the land? What place in society would they have Michael? Was there a tier of people that were professional soldiers or was this such a rare occurrence that it required no big change to the system? Lots of questions lol😊
"Yoeman AND freeman, M'lord!" he said proudly.
Probably plenty of inmates in the king's dungeon to replace them.
"Here's what I'm offering you lot. Work my land. You get a roof, meals, & fresh air. Or rot in the dungeon, maybe hang. Hmmm?"
@@chrisdooley1184 try here was definitely professional soldiers who in some cases went country to country serving all over Europe they also say there wasn’t a home in England that didn’t have something in it plundered from France
I'm sure you already know this. But I think it's cool that Sargeant, much like Knight, originally meant servant, and both became terms used to describe professional soldiers. The use of Sargeants to drill, oversee, and discipline leavied men and conscripts, is what lead to the modern practice of having non-commisioned officers.
Yep, that's a great observation Mike, thanks. 👍🏻
Knight comes from the Englisc word for a boy servant (cniht - knave comes from the same word and it is similar to modern German for a boy - knabe). The land value holding for a Norman knight was the same as that for a pre-Conquest thane and I have often wondered if the change from "thane" to "knight" came from the English taking the piss out of their new Norman masters by calling them "servant boy".
These videos are so great for anyone curious as to how medieval warfare was organized, supplied and fought. Love this channel Kevin!
Cheers Jonathan, I appreciate it 👍🏻
Kevin, you're the best history professor that I ever had, thanks.
Thanks so much Phil, I appreciate that 👍🏻
Also, surgeon!
Imagine your history teacher entering the class room in full mail battle dress, sword, bow and arrows handy. In my schooling days way back in the 70s that would have been possible, nowadays that would sound a Terrorist Alert on the highest level and Kevin would be in the headlines by lunch after the school lock down would have been ended.
I get up in the morning, just before I go to the office, grab a cup of coffee and watching these videos. There's always something new and interesting. Thanks Kevin
How lovely, thank you & good morning! 😃
🏴Really have a calmness that comes over me here on this channel...An authentic Englishman dressed to the period, in his great hall telling tales from the old days...
As an American, I have always studied American history. It is a joy to learn your English history. Thank you for these videos!
Our pleasure Chris!
Really get into it my friend its long and interesting. We fought each other the Irish the Scottish the Welsh the French. No wonder the English are not liked haha. Like we care. Anyway its really interesting.
Thanks for another history lesson, Kevin. The command structure breakdown is still similar to todays, just with the brigade or division commander instead of the king. As a veteran of the US Army, and yourself of the British Army, we can appreciate discipline. Cheers from Texas.
Absolutely 👍🏻
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Is there a reason you did not mention morale, did you subsume that under discipline?
@@thodan467 I don't script my videos, so sometimes forget to mention things. It's interesting though when you talk about moral, from what I can glean, it was pretty good and in the face of defeat, instead of misery and running away, it was stoic and stand your ground. Hope that helps.
I think I mention a little something about moral at the end of my 'camp life' video.
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Thank You
This guy is hands down the most entertaining medievalist channel on RUclips.
🤣 Wow, thanks!!
In all my life I have never heard this explained so well. Well done, as you say in the UK!
Wow, that's great to hear, thanks 👍🏻
Great explanation on a topic that surprisingly little is readily available i orit. Interesting to see the importation of French into the medieval rank system - vingt = 20, cent = 100, and mille = 1000.
Hello from central Indiana USA! Love this channel. I first watched Kevin giving a tour of a castle. I've been keen ever since. These videos are so well done and the passion is obvious. Keep doing your thing, History Squad!
Hey Adam, thanks, will do 👍🏻
Thank you Kevin,...... I love these obscure subjects you dig up from the shadows of the past.
It won't be long, before I got a doctor's degree in medieval times ...thanks to the best teacher in the world 👌
Many many thanks for showing and please keep up the good work 👍
😂
This was extremely interesting to me. I always had thought that a bunch of somewhat autonomous groups of people just kind of milled about the battlefield after having a brief planning session before the battle. Cool
An army without officers but complete with NCO’s can survive temporarily but an army without NCO’s and full compliment of officers will crumble immediately.
Like Russia right now.
Very good video, Kevin. Always learn something new. Apologies to your ancestors, as my mothers family came over with William the Bastard in 1066. My fathers family was in Wales at the time. Take care.
Cheers mate 👍🏻
It’s so cool how you know all of this! I’ve seen multiple history videos and more than one of them have said that I quote “ we do not . Know how they controlled the English Army any longer.” I knew that had to be bullshit this sounds quite accurate. It reminds me a lot of how the Romans did it with the centurions. Awesome video Kevin keep it up! ❤️🤟
A great explanation much clearer than my Professor back in the 1970s
Kevin, yourself (and the 'stache) are treasured. Thanks for another great video!
🤣 Cheers Jack
Gotta say kev Ur min painting skills are coming along nicely.
That's a real compliment Richard, thanks, but I'll never be as good as you. 😜
@@thehistorysquadAwww....Shucks!!
Fascinating video, Sir. I served in my old country's army as an infantryman. I learned somewhere that the word infantry came from the word infant. The peasants who made up the body of the army were considered the children of their lords, hence, infantry.
Well that's interesting 👍🏻
AFAIK it came from the spanish Infanta Princess, IIRC who raised or charactered some regiments
I've been wondering this exact question. Except I'm specifically wondering about 1066 and the command structure at Stamford Bridge and Hastings. Thumbs up as usual Kevin! Rock on!
Stamford Bridge, a favourite topic of mine, when I eventually get to it, I'll be talking about the Fords then 👍🏻
Very good information. Thanks.
Very good description of a complex structure. It’s surprising to see the similarities between this and the classical Ottoman army of the 1500’s; they too were very bureaucratic and rank oriented but maybe more centralised than this example
Great video, Kevin. Really interesting to see the rank structure of the units. Thanks for the shout out also 🤘🏻
You're most welcome buddy 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent , learned something !
Very interesting. They did things in 20's.
I love the video. Simple, straight, to the point.
I do wonder what the differences in social structure were in Saxon England prior to the Norman conquest. I know the Anglos lived in what was once called the Danelaw and I heard that the peasants there paid rent in coin or grain instead of doing a set number of days working the lord's land. I read on wiki that back in Saxon times, the King would travel from village to village to collect food rent which would feed him and his massive entourage as well as do his duty of settling justice and hearing pleas.
Thanks for watching, I do plan to look into the Anglo Saxons a little later on 👍🏻
This is a fantastic explanation. Clear and simple.
It’s actually very similar to how the British battalions of the black powder era are formed.
You’d have 10 companies in a battalion.
Each company to be split down into two platoons.
A company would be commanded by a captain and his aide a lieutenant and two sergeants with corporals spread through the ranks - I think 1 for every 8-10 men.
As such in a platoon your have 1 Officer, 1 senior NCO and 5-6 junior NCOs who helped keep the ranks dressed during battle.
When as a company you’d have 2 officers (1 senior, and 1 junior with maybe a junior ensign attached usually to learn and gain experience from those reliable officers), 2 sergeants and 10-12 corporals.
Formed into full battalion strength you’d have 1 lieutenant colonel, 10 captains, 12 lieutenants (2 usually as assistants to the battalion commander), usually 4-6 ensigns (you’ll always have a pair to carry the colours and a secondary pair to assist the battalion commander and maybe a secondary couple to assist also depending on the needs of the battalion), down from there your looking at 26ish sergeants (your standard 20x plus a battalion sergeant major, plus a pair to guard the colours and a colour-sergeant to command the colour party, and a band-sergeant major to command keep tally over the drummers and musicians that help direct the battalion), your 100+ corporals who’s keep the discipline amongst the ranks during battle and also known as “file fillers/pushers” as they were expected to be the ones to drag/push rankers back into file to close up gaps, and all this would be in a battalion expected to be around 1000+ strong - tho never usually that much on actual campaign due to casualties.
Fascinating. Thank you 🫡
Thank you very much for a great history lesson in rank structure in medieval times. Love it! This is just what I have been looking for, now that Im building my HYW-miniature army. Hope you do some videos in the future with same beautiful detail about the English Civil War. 👍
Oh yes, definitely it'll just take some time 👍🏻
I am so happy for this! It's information that needs to be disseminated and is poorly covered on RUclips!
When I was in university, an undergrad, I got to lecture on the topic of feudalism and manorialism... And the difference between them in economics and politics as different social structures. I do believe there's a university or three with papers of mine on the topic. Never got to be a professor, but I had good faculty support and was encouraged to lecture on topics I knew in detail.
If I thought enough people were interested, I'd actually make a YT video on the different political and economic systems of England from the late Anglo-Saxon period through early Anglo-Norman. I don't believe I've got the right disposition for that anymore, I've become a surly old vet and construction worker despite the education. I believe some excitement and eloquence in my verbal delivery has been lost. Verbosity, I definitely still have.
🤣 Love it, thanks for watching and your comment Brian 👍🏻
Sounds like the battle organisation was based on that if the roman legions.
20 men led by an Optio, 5 groups of 20 led by a Centurion and so on...
Fascinating stuff, Mr. Hicks. The leadership positions were named after the manpower strength of their command groups: "vint" from 20, "cent" from 100, and "mil" for 1,000.
Absolutely yes, they have their origins from Latin 👍🏻
Oh I’m waiting for that next video very eagerly.
Working on it! It'll be a few weeks off 👍🏻
Well done Kevin! As always excellent job!
The way you convey this information is awesome. I have learned so much from your channel and I always look forward to your videos!
Thanks Suki
It's nice that you use models for visual aid
Thanks, you are top notch Kevin
I've been wondering this for a while now, awesome video!
Surely at the time of the Norman invasion, Normandy was a duchy that was in constant contention with France. They would not have considered themselves French, and in fact were of Norse heredity. They spoke French, but of a very different variety, in fact they still do to a lesser extent.
Yes, that's right and of course I know this, but for the ease of my international audience it's easier for their understanding to mention the French loosely in the way I did 👍🏻
Dude please please do a segment on the battle of Towton. I would love so much to hear you tell that story.
Haha, it's definitely on the cards, but I'm still working on the Hundred Years War series, Towton is still a little way off yet. 👍🏻
God bless you, sir. We need history taught this way and you provide it to us. Thank you.
My pleasure
thank yew kevin from the rank and file. take care
Hey Gary, cheers & you too 👍🏻
You continue to expand my education! My deepest thanks! You are a natural educator.
My pleasure!
Thank you and have a great week.
You too Dennis!
Always informative and never boring! Keep up the great work!
Cheers Ross 👍🏻
Sir I served in the USMC learned discipline, We use to say to our drill instructors discipline is the instant will respect to authority self reliance and team work. I was in bootcamp back in 1986 sir I served 8 years.
A big thumbs up to you mate 👍🏻
While I've been loving your videos and remain grateful for all the facts and insights you relate I still feel obligated to point out that if the Normans hadn't invaded England you and I would never have been born to become fascinated by this period and what our ancestors were up to and where! Mine were on the west coast of Scotland and the Hebrides, before fleeing to the new world following the failed second Stewart restoration, so I might say the things about England you say about Normans.
I love these medieval battle breakdowns and I can't say how much it tickles me to hear "Cavalry" instead of "Calvary". I was armored cavalry and irks me to death to hear the wrong way.
Armored Calvary would be Chaplains in a tank unit.
Gary Owen !
@@philvanderlaan5942 makes me think of Warhammer 40K.
@@michaelhowell2326 very little knowledge of 40k , only times I played I was given a dwarf crewed weapon that looked like a Flakvierling 38 but had the range of a pistol, but from my understanding of the lore that would fit even better, armored Calvary would fit 40k that is.
@@philvanderlaan5942 I love me some 40K but I didn't think about armored chaplains until you said but the Space Marines have characters called Chaplains. They are fully armored in power armor and can be pit in tanks.
@@michaelhowell2326 actually I was thinking of single or a small group of chaplains IN a modern tank unit , I didn’t even think of space marine chaplains BEING the tank unit until you said reminds me of Warhammer 40K .
Love to see you do the different types of peasants.today we lump them all together, but at the time there were several levels and you would be warned not to see there's reeves son with the villiens daughter.
Excellent video, while an amateur historian and relatively knowledgeable about the hundred year war, I did not know how the rank structure worked thanks for enlightening me.
You're welcome!
Thank you sir very informative
Great video as allways
Man got the drip, got the minis, got the knowledge, Yeah this going to be a good video
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Could you do a video on the Saxon society structure? similar to what you did here with the Normans.
Yes I will, it's on the cards for one day 👍🏻
Value of troops seems to matter much more than number of troops. The miniatures are fantastic for visualizing the battlefield.
Glad you like them 👍🏻
The best explanation I’ve ever heard. Thank you. A big G’day from Australia mate
Cheers Wayne 👍🏻
Brilliant video. My ancestors put the feudal system in place and stealing the land from the Saxons and Danes living in England.
Greetings once again from nova Scotia, thank you Kevin, I very much enjoyed that. I liked how the Roman legions organizing, influenced the command structure of mideval armies, influenced modern armed forces. The line goes on......Thank you once again, I loved the video, cheers Arthur
Thanks Arthur 👍🏻
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thanks for the visit 👍🏻
Very interesting Kevin thank you 👌
Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻
Love the models man!
Thanks!
These videos are so interesting Kevin, keep up the good work 🤘🏹
Will do 👍🏻
This is something I've always wondered. Great video.
On the one hand I understand and firmly believe in the ability of all races, genders, and nationalities to produce both qualified and unqualified speakers on a topic.
On the other hand I immediately knew this was a reliable source because of the accent.
🤣🤣🤣
I’m interested in Battle of Nasby living nearby. I drive around the country looking at history doing a bit of research at each place. The other day I was in Devizes a Royalist town. Cromwell sorted them out, then went to Nasby. I have found out the army marches about 15 to 20 miles a day so about 5 days to get to Northampton. The army must be supplied with food. This happened in June so no corn being harvested. Would they have lived on meat? Taken from villages and towns on the way?
There were commissioners who went ahead of the armies to source food and supplies. Generally speaking they would have paid for it.
Great video. Short, to the point, informative. Thanks a bunch!
You're welcome!
Great job as always, Kevin - especially when the miniatures take the field! Thank you for your videos and stay well....
Thanks Mike, will do 👍🏻
always something interesting, great research. I find the commentary about the battles fastenating.
Brilliant. Thank you Sir.
That was awesome 👏 👏 👏
These videos are priceless. Thank you so much for all the hard work.
My pleasure!
Thanks!
Hi Donicus, thanks for the SUPER, it's much appreciated. I'm glad you enjoyed the video 👍🏻
Thank you for a peek through the medieval military keyhole. I would also love your opinion and knowledge on when this structure became the way armies were organized. Am particularly interested in Edward I who was constantly raising armies of thousands against the Welsh. Judging by his need for order and control, I'd think he would have organized his troops in similar fashion, or would that have been left to his barons? Thank you, from Iowa.
Edward I raised his armies through the feudal system and therefore through his barons 👍🏻
@@thehistorysquad Thank you, sir, for your fast reply. Am finishing a historical novel on 1283 when my ancestor also was there.
That was fascinating. Thank you very much.
I've always wondered! Thank you! What was the main difference or differences between a Marshall and Constable? Just the latter over the cavalry?
Yes, I do believe so 👍🏻
Very interesting keep getting better and better thanks Kevin 👍🏻
No problem, cheers 👍🏻
Another interesting and entertaining video on medieval history Kevin. Thanks for sharing!
You're most welcome 👍🏻
I will say that at the Battle of Agincourt, the English did have a not fully feudal system for gathering their army, as opposed to the French, who still relied heavily upon the Arierban, the French royal army summoned by the King.
Great stuff. Other video makers could learn a lot by watching you
Hi Kevin Hicks, my Name is Christoph. Welcome to me watching your YT-Channel! Again. :)
🤣 Hey Christoph, thanks for joining us again 👍🏻
Brilliant as always Kevin 👍🏻
This was very very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's interesting how much it matches the roman structure of centurions and decani.
Wow, very interesting to see and hear how the army worked in those days, thank you 😊, very impressive
Thanks for watching Nancy 👍🏻
Very interesting I always wondered about this structure
Fantastic, and incredibly informative 👏 thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! 👍🏻
The fact that there's not more subs on this channel is a crime...
🤪 Cheers JC
FINALLY I HAVE WAITED SO LONG
In Cornwell’s books, he doesn’t have any Millinars. By then you had groups of companies that reported to Bohoon or people like that.
The Norman conquest is still there, the same nobles and landowners are very cheerful about 1066 and what their ancestors did to the Saxons.
This is wonderful! Thank you!
You're welcome Nancy, thanks for watching 👍🏻
Very good as always Kevin! :)
I enjoy how the first few minutes is all about the Norman yoke placed upon good and proper Englishmen or Saxonmen?
Kevin is Mercian. He told me so himself once. So is my dad's family.
Mercia FTW!
@@davidcooke8005 I am descendant from the Germanic barbarians who destroyed Rome, I have mixed feelings about that.
Danke!
Am I correct in thinking you are describing what the Canadian government and the Dutch government want to do? Take the land back from the farmers effectively making a modern feudal system?
Oooh, interesting, I don't know 🤔
Nice, 20 men isn’t too much to handle and the power chain is well proportioned. I suppose that’s why in table top war games most units are 20 models strong, for the rank and file games anyway.
Thank you for sharing.