Some information about the war that started in 1337 and ended in 1453, the same year as the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul).
The Battle of Castillon is the war that started between these two states in 1337 as a result of the King of England, Edward the Third, claiming the throne of France, and ended the Hundred Years War, which lasted for exactly 116 years, with the victory of France. Thus, the French completely liberate their lands from the British occupation.
Although some historians say that the knowledge of the cannons used in the conquest of Istanbul reached the French, the Hundred Years' War ended, but this is a ridiculous claim. Because the Battle of Castillon took place only 50 days after the conquest of Istanbul. In such a short time, it was not possible for this technology to pass to the French and be used in warfare at that time. There is no information that these cannons were used during the war anyway. However, the French were successful in this war by using a method known as the Pincer movement (Turan tactic), the Turkish war tactic.
French soldiers who encountered the British in the vicinity of Bordeaux deliberately attacked and then retreated; The English chasing them, on the other hand, suddenly found themselves in a rain of arrows and the French soldiers who were walking around and surrounding them. One of the most brutal attacks in history took place after this moment. The two legs of the British soldiers who were not yet dead were cut off by the French and left on the battlefield.
The war ended with the victory of France, and later on, friendships were established between the Ottoman Empire and France. In England, which lost the war, a civil war called the Wars of the Roses, which will last for 30 years, will begin.
The year 1453 was a great turning point for Europe as well as for the Ottoman Empire in every respect. Although it is said to have occurred close to the French Revolution, in fact, the ideology called nationalism emerged for the first time in Europe as a result of the Battle of Castillon.
It was the first time a French king described his people as a French nation by keeping them separate from all Europeans after this war.
French Catholic saint Jeanne d'Arc, one of the most important symbols of French nationalism, is one of the proofs that this movement started slowly in France during this period.
The slogan pro patria mori, that is, "to die for the country", has now spread all over France after this date.
The Ottoman Empire, on the other hand, saw the benefit of this movement in those centuries, which would cause damage to itself after the French Revolution; France, after the relentless struggle with England, learned a lesson for itself from the troubles it experienced, and almost completely turned its back on the church and adopted the slogan "France first".
So much so that later on, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, for the first time in history, a Christian state and a Muslim state would establish non-political friendships and the church would call this scandal.