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Hi, I'm John, and I've been passionate about #history since I could remember. I majored in history and historical research and trained for a year under an actual historian. Ultimately, I am a History Buff like many of us. Let's #react and discuss things we know and so much we don't know about history!
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This alliance does NOT cover football I assure you.
The Welsh archers at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt were paid mercenaries, shooting English longbows; no longbows were ever commissioned from Wales. The scaled up 6' longbow was developed in England, between 1300 and 1320, in a large-scale English Army context . In 1136 a Welsh army defeated a fierce Norman force with a unique weapon that changed the course of military history - the longbow. The Danes used longbows, The Danish history of archery is actually quite interesting. It is possible that the people who lived in Denmark invented the first ones.
Only the Portuguese knows that...very few British knows that...we were used by the english for centuries
Know the narrator very well, a popular face on our tv for most history subjects. I seem to have always been aware that Portugal is our oldest ally, and - I am not checking this - the only European country we have not actually been at war with 😁. Napoleonic War - The Peninsular Campaign, the Lines of Torres Vedras etc was probably when I first became interested in our history with Portugal. It still amazes me how convoluted and intertwined a long and active history can get. Love it.
Fun fact about the word TEA, it came from portuguese ships, where the tea was stored as Transporte de Ervas Aromáticas (Aromatic Herbs Transport)
You are by no means a "dumb" American but clearly intelligent and thoughtful. This is my first time here but I will be back (as your man said).
England did not invented the long bow! Long bows date back to the Neolithic times!
Fun fact: Queens in NYC is named after Catherine of Bragança. And the Founding Fathers toasted the Declaration of Independence over a bottle of Madeira wine. And you can find the full version of this doc is on YT. It's great.
Basically Portuguese introduced tea to England and the alliance has stood strong since, once Portuguese had no rule over the sea's to their close neighbour Spain... which Lost to England in Spanish Armada in 1588 and Portugal always been safe since🏴l 🇵🇹 and thats why English can go fighting other English on Spanish soil🤣🤣 be British now obviously due to time frame
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I think for people in England who like history this alliance is well known but for people in England who don’t care about history, which I think is probably a very large chunk of people unfortunately, this alliance is not well known.
An interesting video , I was reminded of a few names forgotten from school days and it was pretty good given the time constraints . Certainly Portugal was a convenient ally against France and Spain with the penninsular wars not touched on , missing the chance of a few Sharpe clips . Always remember Eusabio and Torres at the 66 World cup .
I'm from Portugal, we briefly learn about the Anglo-Portuguese alliance in school to mention that England's help was crucial in the Battle of Aljubarrota, followed by the Treaties of Methuen in 1703 which opened Portugal's trade to British products, and the Peninsular Wars. Most people assume it began with the Treaty of Windsor but the first treaty between both kingdoms was signed in 1372, known as the Treaty of Tagilde - we can say Windsor formalized the previous commitments.
Mike Loades, Historian, writer, television documentary presenter and director. Plenty of his documentaries on CZcams, ranging from the BBC war gaming TV programme "Time Commanders" replaying famous battles, to re-enactments and historical weapons effect videos as "Weapons That Made Britain" series.
"Were they Australian?" 🤣
Windsor castle started getting built in 1070 by William the conqueror so its likely that the castle has always been quite prominent, and i think the only building older and as prominent is Westminster abbey stared in 960.
Had a works event a couple of Christmases ago where we had a go at archery, this is in England but we have a Frenchman. I apologized to him in advance before giving a proud two fingered salute with lots of jeering. It occured to me that I may never again have the opportunity to use the V-sign in its proper context. It was most satisfying !
Marathon you say, John. Dont forget the Battle of Thermopylae (lit. Hot Gates) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars and used a 'funneling' effect, too.
If I remember, this documentary was significantly longer, and it does cover the Iberian front of the Napoleonic wars
I was aware of the alliance but not how far back it went beyond the Napoleonic Period. I have some reading to do lol.