Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 111, Pwattier.

This week, and for those of you who like battles and dates and all that sort of thing,

we have a real treat, a campaign of Pwattier.

For those of you who do not, like that sort of thing, then this week it's really going

to suck, because today is all about war.

On the website, gentle listener, we have a feast of animation.

Due to the labours of my brother and Andy, we now have a new widget that allows a slideshow,

which you can move forward at your own pace.

How cool is that?

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being rubbish and 10 being massively super cool.

There are not one, but two slideshows.

One of the campaign, and the other of the battle itself, and I slobber with gratitude

for Andy and Jonathan's work.

So in the south west of France, 1356, started as 1355, had ended.

English raids into French territory, to which either there was no response, or a response

that came far too late.

Ford in the area were violent, touchy, and fickle.

Seeing French impotence, many brought their allegiance to the Black Prince, brought their

castles and land, and became violent, touchy, and fickle on the English side.

Poor old John was suffering.

Through the back end of 1355, he was forced to make concession after concession to get

himself any tax revenue at all, to pay an army for the following year.

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