I think that England and France both had advantages and disadvantages. The French were fighting on their own land, while England had the advantage of having a relatively stable throne situation.

-Battle of Marathon
-Battle of Hastings
-Battle of Agincourt
-Spanish Armada
-Battle of Blenheim
-Battle of Waterloo
-Battle of Austerlitz

Battle of Cannae (216 bc)
Battle of Teutoburg forest (9)
Battle of Alesia (52 bc)
Battle of Zama (146 bc)

Operation Downfall. The planned, but never executed, plan to invade Japan during World War II. Thank heavens Japan surrendered before that.

Given all the talk of longbows, here is something that confuses me... why didn't anyone else utilize it? The French and Scots were repeatedly devastates by it for generations and yet they never tried to train their own longbowmen. They certainly had the tools to do so... It's not like the design was complicated or required raw materials only available in England/Wales. Sure, training a longbowman took decades but these wars went on for over a century. The French could have used some of the money wasted on Genoese crossbowmen and trained/raised their own longbowmen. Would have dramatically altered the Hundred Years War

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Well, I know at the time there was a law in England where men were required to practice with the longbow regularly so almost the entire male population had experience with them, whereas the crossbow was more expensive, slower and hardly available enough to train the entire male French population.

The French also used the longbow later during the 100 Years War, though it seems to not be mentioned much, most likely due to the fact that it's perceived to be an English weapon and the French were trying to distance themselves from it.

I think the longbow was not really utilized by the French because at the end of the 100 years war, it was already out-of-date.
Gunpowder started to reach Europe, and artillery slowly appeared (the first notable apparition in Western Europe was during the battle of Crécy with the bombard and the cannon).

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Not to mention the arquebus, which the French eagerly adopted, a great deal earlier than the English if I'm not mistaken.

Except the firearm didn't really replace it, at least not the weapon itself. Hundreds of years later Wellington was still requesting a corp of longbowmen to complement his muskets. Ignoring the significant invest cost of the longbow (whichwas the real reason for its demise) and it was the superior weapon... More accurate than the musket and faster than the rifle with (I believe) comparable ranges to the two firearms,

As for the crossbow, it was a fairly useless weapon with the only benefit being its minimal training time.

the first notable apparition in Western Europe was during the battle of Crécy with the bombard and the cannon

I wouldn't say that. In Mohi Battle, the Mongols used cannons from China to attack Hungary, around a century before the Hundred Years' War even started.

I do not consider Hungary as part of Western Europe Juq. And it was not an European power which used it, but Mongols.

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• Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
  
• Battle of Fulford (1066)
  
• Battle of Hastings (1066)
  
• WW1
  
• WW2
  
• Cold war
  

Aren't any of the above obvious?
Edit:

• War of the Roses
  
• Naseby (First English Civil War) (14 June 1645)
  
• Blenheim (War of the Spanish Succession) (13 August 1704)
  
• Culloden (Jacobite Rebellion of 1745) (16 April 1746)
  
• Plassey (Seven Years War) (23 June 1757)
  
• Quebec (Seven Years War) (13 September 1759)
  
• Lexington (American War of Independence) (19 April 1775)
  
• Salamanca (Peninsular War) (22 July 1812)
  
• Waterloo (Napoleonic Wars) (18 June 1815)
  
• Aliwal (First Sikh War) (28 January 1846)
  
• Balaklava (Crimean War) (25 October 1854)
  
• Rorke’s Drift (Zulu War) (22-23 January 1879)
  
• Gallipoli (World War One) (25 April 1915 – 9 January 1916)
  
• Somme (World War One) (1 July – 18 November 1916)
  
• Megiddo (World War One) (19 September – 31 October 1918)
  
• El Alamein (World War Two) (23 October – 4 November 1942)
  
• D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (World War Two) (6 June – 25 August 1944)
  
• Imphal/Kohima (World War Two) (8 March – 3 July 1944)
  
• Imjin River (Korean War) (22-25 April 1951)
  
• Goose Green (Falklands War) (28-29 May 1982)
  
• Musa Qala (War in Afghanistan) (17 July -12 September 2006)
  

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Hungary is certainly eastern Europe - it is distanced to the west from Lithuania.

But let's say that it isn't:

Sevilla Battle (1248): The Christians used it against the Muslims.

1066 was an unimportant year, unless you're in an island in which noone lives in and is fighting each other all time.

Also, World Wars were wars, and the Cold War was not a Hot war; no battles were fought.

Edited 3/27/2015 19:20:33

Well, the UK has a larger area than Moscow.
Nice English "unimportant".

Seville Battle (1248): The Christians used it against the Muslims.


Mmmh really? I think you misunderstood it because it was not Christians but Muslims who used those cannons.

Eh, whatever, Mohi is part of Hungary which is part of Western Europe, and black powder was used.

Good enough in my book.

Adrianople

Iwo Jima took Japan's airbase and gave the US an airbase very close to the only country that would not surrender in WWII. With the tens of thousands of Japanese losses and the acquisition of an airbase right next to the only comparably threatening enemy, I'd say it made it apparent to Japan that it was screwed, not that it changed the outcome of the war itself.

If Hungary is part of Western Europe then where the hell do you considerr Eastern Europe??

Belarus