How am I leaving out Welsh impact? The longbowmen in both battles, as well as Poitiers, were mainly comprised of Welsh and English and I stated as much.
emphasis on welsh
Piss the Welsh is right. The Longbow was a Welsh and Gaelic invention, the English just copied it when they realized how many defeats they endured against them (like the battle of Bannockburn) so nothing glorious about that.
The Longbow despite being quite rudimentary, helped a lot against the French knights and the heavy cavalry, however finally those victories were a matter of time, because when the French developped the combination artillery/calvalry and improved their armors and fortifications, the Longbows were out-of-date.
After the Siege of Orléans in 1429, the English lost progressively all their continental possessions.
Crecy and Agincourt were overwhelming English victories (...) thanks to French stubborn pride
"stubborn pride" ahahah as usual, you are just giving your own judgement here (French bashing).
at its peak england controlled france
(well france controlled england but still)
Yeah it was not England which controlled France, because England itself was controlled by a French dynasty, the Plantagenêt from Anjou, and the French-norman noble houses replaced all the ancient Anglo-saxon ones when William the Conqueror conquered Britain.
What I wonder is if England had won the Hundred' Years War. Would it still have continental territory today? At its peak, England controlled most of the western half of France.
That would have been interesteing to see indeed, because I think France and England would have finally merged into a single entity, and that would have changed everything in the next centuries (if that possible union lasted for a long time).
The Plantagenêt dynasty ruling England was not far on getting the French crown, when Charles VI the Mad of France signed the Treaty of Troyes which recognized and gave the crown of France to Henry V the English king and his successors.