The Great Siege of Rouen 1418 | Hundred Years War (Episode 15)

hi my name is Kevin Hicks welcome to the history Squad now today's video is about the great Siege of Ru in France Normandy 1418 now there's an awful lot that happened before this terrible Siege what happened after the battle of aenor all of the events that lead up to this Siege so there are some great stories there so I'm going to actually delve into the couple of years before The Siege but as you can see I've made a model of the siege of Ruan but let me explain this is Henry V's Camp it would have been over a thousand yards away from the city walls because they had plenty of Cannon as we had plenty of Cannon it was a bit of a standoff but as you can see I've worked hard to try and replicate one of the known pictures of Ruan from the time from the medieval times but more about the model later on let's have a look into what led up to the siege of ruong so after that incredible Battle of aenor the king and his army they fall back on Cal he returns to England goes to counter to give thanks and then enters London in great Triumph but his army is in Dire Straits they have a lot of difficulty they've got to get back to England many of them are on their last legs so the king he's safe in England he is celebrating meanwhile back over in France The Garrison at half Flur commanded by the Earl of Dorset there they've got real problems because the French are getting closer to it they're starting to close it off there are no supplies coming from England so to feed his Garrison the Earl of Dorset raids out into Normandy in fact he's gone as far as Ruan itself but then between the I think it was the 9th and 11th of March 1416 he does a raid has 1,040 men at arms and archers about 30 m away from hler he attacks the town of valmore and he burns it he gathers lots of loot Food Supplies and he has it on his toes but what he didn't realize was the count of amyak the French leader there is waiting for him with 50,000 French troops so there's a bit of a standoff the English are in trouble but there are terms offered to the English give us one night say the French and we will hold him Ransom then we want an English Bowman and we'll cut off his right hand the English refuse there is a fight in fact what happens is the French ride down many of our men at arms and Bowman they reckon around 400 of our men were killed well we killed 3,000 of the French we then slip away but we have to abandon our horses and all of the booty but the French catch us again and there's another Clash 2,000 French are killed now I've read a little bit about this there are conflicting bits of evidence but I think we'd G our back to the woods in the nighttime the English slip away the problem the English have is they're exhausted and they are full of wounded so they decide to March along the beach now I've experienced marching on a Pebble Beach and I'll tell you it kills your ankles and it kills your carves but now the English they're marching back to half Flur and they're almost within reach just a matter of a mile or so from half Flur when the French army appear on the top of the cliffs but what they do next is is beyond me they get off their horses these men at arms and nobl men and scramble down the cliffs well I don't know if whoever tried scrambling down a cliff in armor it ain't easy and many of them lose their footing begin to Tumble so the English being the English put down their bows and arrows pick up their hammers their axes and attack the French at the foot of the cliff and they do much execution let's put it that way when they finish killing the French who are scrambling down the cliff the English so angry now climb the cliff and attack the French at the top meanwhile The Garrison at half Flur has actually heard the commotion of battle so those who can have ridden out to Aid their comrades on Horseback and smash into the French behind destroying them and pursuing them from the scene it's one of those stories I've never heard of this and when I'm reading I'm thinking wow we did this so now the Garrison limp back problem is all of the food and supplies that they had got from Val has been left behind so they were victorious in a way but unfortunately I think they overstepped the mark some historians say well they were stupid others say well wow look at that English Spirit me I think wow look at that English Spirit but look at the result we'd lost hundreds of men and we did not bring massive supplies back into half Flur which is now being more and more surrounded not only that the French have masked a fleet to cut off half Flare from the English from the channel and that brings us to our next story so the King has done nothing in 1416 to go back to France he's building up his army building up his equipment what concerns him is he's heard nothing from half Flur except his own patrols have noticed that nothing can get in nothing can get out from the sea the French have blockaded the Sayan there so half Flur is in trouble it's going to be starving to death because the French armies are also intercepting patrols on the other side so the king is a bit perplexed now the town of Ry on the south coast of England brilliant place to visit by the way they have gifted the king a craft as either a small ship or a large boat and it's a fine vessel and he's very grateful but he's saying yeah but this is no good to me what's happening in half Flur and the Sailor volunteers he says I know the way I know the waters very well and you now have a fine craft from R he says if you allow me to crew and fill the ship full of supplies I'll get into half flirt and the King backs him this is the story of the Sailor of Ry now the story is from the Deeds of Henry V and that from the day written by John sta or stria it's a hard one to pronounce and Jeffrey Hamilton put the book together what it says is this young sailor with his crew of 50 men and loaded up with supplies sails off for half lur and they see that they can't get through the French blockade so what he does is so I understand Hoist the French flag and he sails in amongst all of the French ships waving MO ahour and he doesn't go straight for half Flur he weedles his way around described in the book as a wolf sneaking through a pack of dogs until eventually he weedles his way and slips into a half Flur food has arrived now people can eat but the king needs to know what's going on a message needs to be delivered so the Sailor of Ry with his fine craft and his crew aboard they sneak out in the dead of night in amongst the French ships they have raised the right colors bonjour or Bon and eventually he slips out through the French Cordon out with the tide and he has it not quite on his toes cuz let's face it he's at sea but he gets back across the channel and the message is delivered to the King Henry V himself buur is besieged it might just starve to death so the king now knows that the port of half Flur is having difficulty could be starving to death he needs to lift first the naval blockade so we can get supplies in so 15th of August 1416 the Duke of Bedford together with Roger Earl of March have an armada of between two and 300 vessels off they go to see if they can crack the French and genoise navy that's blockading half Flur now we outnumber the French and genoise they have 100 craft the problem is eight of those genoise craft are enormous carrots great big high vessels with the for Castle and the stern Castle so the English are going to have a heck of a problem because they're going to be fighting those men high above them also the genuis have 12 galys these are the ships that are have ores so they don't have to rep rely on the Wind to actually move around so the two the crack of dawn face each other and the English go for it they plow straight into the center they're ues a battle at lasts hour after hour what's going to happen is the English are going to as close as they can and they're going to put their grapples onto the French ships and hope to so that they can really get aboard the French ships but unfortunately the French and the genoes from the high up for castles are dropping down incur liquid on fire quickline to Blind the men Stones crossbow bolts darts the English are having a heck of a time but they manage to climb on board once they're on board now the savagery that ensues Slaughter one by one the English begin to capture these carriots in fact they capture three of them intact they destroy one which sinks another one in its effort to flee beaches itself and is destroyed the rest of the genoes and the French Fleet now either sail away to the South or they go into hon Flur as safe haven for them what the Duke of Bedford has done is he has broken the flotilla that blocked half Flur now the English have the chance for a moment they control they approaches to half Flur they control the English Channel now that was just for a while but now the king can make his preparations for his conquest of Normandy his invasion of Normandy it's a master an army of between 11 and 12,000 men and up to 30,000 other Personnel Craftsman Carpenters Gunners Pages Squires all the people you need to set up camp to dig all of the trenches all of those kind of things it amasses a fleet I think it's about 233 or there about ships English and Dutch to convey his Armada across to France the problem is the French together with the Spanish and the genoise have managed to put together a bit of a fleet and they are attacking ports on the south coast of England in an attempt to disrupt the King's preparations for his invasions of Normandy the French know that we're coming so before the king can actually sail across to France he needs this armer of the French and genoes and the Spanish ships to be swept aside so 29th of June 1417 an English Fleet under the command of Lord Huntington set sail and just like the battle off the coast of half the English Fleet plow into the enemy and they destroy it they sweep them from the Seas the English Channel is now firmly in control of the English king just a little note those ships that fought then these are the seeds that were swn the beginning of what we now know as the Royal Navy so the king set sail with his armad at the end July 1417 the path has been cleared he lands at the Port of tuque on the south side of the river San he was Fed Up acrossing Bridges and having to fight his way across he learned all of this on his aenor campaign so now the king's plan is to cut Normandy in half work his way along the river s till he then cuts off luong the key to his entire plan is the city of K 40,000 inhabitants it's going to be a hard nut to crack not only that it's actually in two halves one half is the citel the other half is actually an island they have built new walls dug deep ditches have the citizens of Kong they have a lot of faith in their new defenses now the Duke of Clarence actually goes ahead of the king to reconter K and brilliantly he gallops into the suburbs and captures two very strong points Abby ohom and the Abby o dams one on the west one on the east now the King when he arrives on the 18th of August 1417 has brought up his guns and he together with the Duke of Clarence on either side and other noblemen surrounding now can bring their Mighty guns to bear on the city of Kong which has been given the opportunity to surrender but they will not they are putting their faith that a French army will come to their rescue and their walls can withstand anything the English have to shoot at them but they have not met the King's new guns so you imagine then at this Siege of Kong the King on the west behind the Grand parts of this fortified Monastery and then his brother the Duke of Clarence is on the other side of the city as well as other noblemen around but what the English do with their engineers and their Pioneers is they dig Earth Earthworks closer and closer to the French moving their guns with them getting closer all the time also our engineers and miners are undermining the walls but the French citizens now so confident they countermine those little fights under ground but the king when his guns fetch down battlements overnight the French cover of Darkness so the Bowman can't see them reinforce the breaches the king is losing his patience and at one stage he actually says to the citizens of P surrender but he has met with nothing but scorn so he says if you don't surrender No Quarter will be given now there was a witness who I think he was a monk from and den need heard that when the guns fired it was like thunder and they belched forth black smoke as if it had been vomited from Hell itself but the English guns they were different kinds they had small guns and the monk refers to these as raining down small balls of lead these small guns they fitted a cartridge that you then fired it's very primitive so where citizens of K were being showered by these small musket balls I suppose you call them but also their bombards were firing hollow shell iron hollow shell into the town and when they struck the wall they broke into hundreds of pieces the King was losing his patience beginning of September the early of March brings much needed reinforcements to the king's Army laying Siege to Kong and on the morning of the 4th of September the king having heard three masses orders a general assault onto the new town of K he first Onslaught however is beaten back the French are using burning oil powdered quick lime scolding water as well as stones and crossbow bolts but there's an incident a young English Knight sir Edward Springhouse actually falls into one of the ditches in front of the French and they set him on fire and burn him Alive by dropping down bales of burning straw onto him the English soldiers witnessed this and they become angry very angry but the second wave is beaten back but then when the third wave goes in the jke of clarence's men attack from the other side and leading the Duke's men is Harry Eng Les and he is the first to LEAP into the breach now the two brothers King Henry V and the Duke of Clarence meet in the middle of Kong new town but the English troops now are crying Havoc who's going to hold them back they are so angry it is said that 2,000 or more of the citizens of Kong were butchered by the English soldiers after this 16 days later the rest of Kong surrenders and the news of the surrender and The Butchery of the people of Kong spreads fear throughout the whole of Normandy during the winter of 14718 the king lay Siege to the city of Fes down in Normandy now I've been there it's a fabulous place to visit the castle absolutely formidable but the King Henry V had learned from his grandfather Edward III that you could conduct winter campaigns instead of falling back and keeping your troops safe no if you've got the engineers the builders the Carpenters don't forget the king had with him 30,000 of these Personnel you can build winter quarters for your troops wooden Huts little Marketplace Food Supplies and this is what he did at filets although I do understand at one stage the wind blew and blew some of the Huts down however the siege of filets was successful soon as this is done other noblemen are sent around Normandy to subdue other towns but meanwhile in June 1418 the king is at the siege of louvier now this is a little town but well fortified High walls and it had its own guns now the King was Consulting with the Earl of Salsbury in his Pavilion in in his great tent when he suddenly bent down as he bent down a gunstone a cannonball if you like shot where his head had been shattering the main pole in the Pavilion the King was Furious he and the Earl of suy could have been killed but the siege will continue for another two weeks but when it was ended the king ordered that the Gunners who had fired at him and the Earl of Salsbury be found they were found brought to the king who had Gallows constructed and all of those Gunners were hanged in front of the English army so while all this is going on France has been terribly weakened and divided by a civil war it's between the arcs Bernard of armanac and John of burgundy the arcs are who the English are fighting the burundians are actually on our side however May 1418 the burundian managed to capture Paris they take Bernard of armc and many of his supporters and throw them into prison however a fortnight later a burundian mob break open the prison and Slaughter the arcs in fact they slaughtered over 2,000 men women and children they committed some terrible atrocities upon their own people then they realized that the English could easily attack Paris so the burgundians tear up any agreements they had with the English and they are going to fortify Paris against the English army they then send reinforcements to this great fortified Bridge across the sa the p deak and also they send troops to Ruan and the English now have a new enemy in Normandy the bandian in order for the king's Army to advance on Ruan they had to cross the river San at P de this was a fortified Bridge fortified at one end and at the other 400 yards across the river Saint you had a fortified town and this was Now garrisoned by burundian troops and what they done in preparation for the English approach was to sink every single small boat from Miles Up and Down the River Sint so when the king arrives he assesses the situ he can see the small boats that have been sunk and he finds his best swimmers how about that in the medieval times finds his best swimmers and they swim out into the San trying to raise the boats but they fail not only that the burundians are shooting at them with crossbows so that's not going to be very nice so the king orders small boats to be made out of leather and wicker work now this is going to take time but guys were there who could actually do this now the only thing I can think of is like the coracles of the Welsh on the Welsh borders there these small boats then they recoger what's going on just south of the bridge and they find there are small Islands I suppose sandbanks in the middle of the river so the king with his engineers and what they have bought with him build a ponum bridge to the middle of the river now s John Corall together with 60 men used the small leather boats to Ford the second half of the River but it's not just the men they bring a horse behind them this horse swims across with three small cannon this is amazing stuff isn't it they then start to bombard the the town at the back of the river the pondar meanwhile the rest of the army forward a bridge they actually build a bridge using the small wooden boats and bring on 5,000 troops and assault Pont Del AR from behind very soon it capitulates the King has captured it he will now Garrison it himself so the road to Ruan is finally secure so before we go any further I suppose I ought to describe what the old city of ruum was like well first of all had a population of 70,000 and it was said to be one of the richest and finest cities in all of France it was famous for its cloth and its gold Merchants there and some of the goods that they manufactur were easily sent up the river say to Paris it also had a fine Cathedral 70 churches now the merchants houses apparently there was no expense spared these were quite incredible houses and so much so the guild Halls within the city of R they were better than any Guild Hall in all of England but on top of that this city had some of the best defenses you could find in Europe to start off it had 5,000 men at Arms these were commanded by the captain of Ru G detillier he was an experienced and able commander who was also a member of the uh the nobility of Normandy on top of his men you had 15,000 militia amongst them some of the famous handpicked crossbowmen under the command of Alan blon Shard then you had your artillery an abundance of artillery commanded by Jean Jordan who had over 2,000 Gunners at his command so it's of no surprise that the inhabitants of Ru the ru as they were known were quite confident to sit behind their walls and wait it out so those walls that they were going to hide behind there were actually five miles of them can you imagine that and not only was the five miles of walls they had improved those Walls by building an earth Bank behind them so they could take the hits from the cannonballs there was also 60 Towers these great Towers now each one of these towers had three guns halfway up and these guns all pointed in different directions in front of each Gate House there were five gates there were great bastions bristling with guns apparently and defenses there were guns along the battlements of all varying sizes and behind each of the gates the five gates there was also a trebuchet now the city itself was protected on one side by the river San but the rest of it it was by the town ditch now this had been improved it had been widened dug very deep and had been filled with what they call Wolf traps now I've seen one of these it's the clamp it's shuts it's the Jaws that then break your leg they nasty pieces of work now on top of all these defenses the city itself had a great water supply and they knew that the English are on their way so they had spent time Gathering supplies and all of that kind of stuff they were so confident that they actually opened the gates to refugees who swelled the numbers of the inhabitants inside the Duke of burgundy John of burgundy and actually he promised come what may I will come to your aid but the fact is we knew everything about Ru we knew how many soldiers how many weapons they got because Henry V God bless him had an English spy working for him within Ruan so Henry V together with his army arrive at Ru on the 31st of July 14 18 I understand they must have arrived in the evening because when thean the inhabitants woke up in the next morning they were completely surrounded the English had five fortified camps now obviously it takes time to get all of this done now as I mentioned earlier I've made a model the problem is the English camps were over a, yards away from the French from Ruan because they didn't want to be hit by crossbow bolts and cannons so I couldn't actually do that otherwise my model of the camp would have been through the door and across the way of my basement which wasn't practical so let's imagine there is an enormous Gap so the English Camp you actually have a campsite here you have armor being cleaned you have a temporary bread oven and you can see a bowl of pottage there being boiled up in fact there's two bowls of pottage that that's your oats peas beans and barley all boiled up into that stew then here it looks like a a a lamb or or a mutton a sheep being roasted you've got your Monks at prayer conveniently next to a beer barrel and I can understand that you've got lots of ladies here who will be about their business whether it be cooking whether it be helping repair clothing they are there as part of the company you got a water here he's filling up from a water barrel but if you look there are tents a temporary shelter maybe a pavilion but this is changing because when Henry V arrives at Ruan he's already prepared that they will make winter shelters so as you come along this side your campsite will transform into a bit of a town so that they will actually have warm accommodation and there will also be B is set up there's 30 40 50,000 people in five different fortified camps so you will have 10 to 15,000 soldiers and then you will have Gunners and everybody else they all need to be fed they all need to have their accommodation so you've got your second line of defense here where you do have your manganal and your Trevor is ready to be shot but as I mentioned before this is 1,200 yards or there BS away from Ruan so these would have had to been Advanced or are these used against your soldiers from ruong who actually Sally Forth the mango Neals here they they were quite maneuverable you could wheel them into position they were wound back under torsion yeah rope there really and you release the arm swings forward snaps against here and the stone is slung forward but the treble shave which carries like half a ton weight you can wind him all the way down put a sizable ball in there 20b ball you could even have it Hollow filled with oil so it can burn and away that goes this is the more powerful but uh interestingly the English had them but it was the guns now because Henry V he's often you know oh he is the Archer King he used The Archers at haing actually he was more Gunner he really knew how to use his guns and if you look we got a gun crew and they've elevated the front of the gun now of course if he fired he'd just blow a hole in his own Palisade so couple of ropes ha back lifts it up Kaboom lower it as quick as they can so the enemy can't retaliate and if you have those all up and down the guns can keep firing you take the siege of C they were firing all day and all night you got extra guns you've got some crossbowmen and of course your archers and then in front of that you have the main defense this Palisade this wooden Palisade which really does separate you from the enemy and in front of it you have the defensive ditch so anybody who's going to attack this Camp they got to get across the ditch and they've got to get through this Palisade not only that they got to come across a wide expanse of open ground no vegetation but if you look at the battlements you've got hoardings you got Roofing over all of the towers and you can see the three guns so anybody who got close to this would literally be shot to Pieces apparently there were guns all the way up in the hoardings as well so Ru on itself wow don't go anywhere near it all of these camps will eventually be link together by trenches but there's more to it than this there's another problem that the English have when they arrive so I say the English had a problem when they arrived at La there was more than one problem there were several the first one they had to counter was enemy ships in the river San so the English couldn't get anywhere near the river to do anything they could be fired on by these ships so the English need to bring their ships to Bear but they can't sail them down the s in front of R because their ships would be blown out the water so what do the English Sailors do haul their warships out of the river s mounted on Wheels with their sails fully out they wind catches them and they haul and pull their ships across four miles of land and then relaunch their ships to the Eastern side of Ruan now they can attack any enemy ships the enemy simply get their ships into Ruan they're safe so now the English control the saan so they lay three boom three chains across each side of the river San one at water level one 18 in below one 18 in above these were great chains they've been bought on purpose I King is thinking about this months and months and months in advance so now the Navy guards they're saying the ru they can't actually use the river s at all but then there's another problem as they dig their trenches round of course when it comes to the river San the English Messengers going from Camp to Camp have got to row a boat across so the king gets his master Carpenters at work they pile Drive wooden pilings into the river bed of the same and lay a wooden bridge across apparently it was an engineering feet people went wow that is abs absolutely incredible so now you have complete surrounding of the city of Ruan but then on the Eastern side there was the fort of St Catherine upon a hill they've got to capture that then just up on the Parish Road there was a town of kbec which can fire upon anybody who approaches it so the Earl of wari within a week captures the town Ruan now is secure the king sends messages to England and it's it's kind of what they call a Dunkirk in Reverse instead of Little Ships coming to France to take away an English army we have Little Ships coming from England filled with victuals of all kind coming to halfer and then the food is transferred sailed all the way down the saan to the Garrison laying Siege to the city of aor the king is going to starve them out so whil the King was actually consolidating his camps getting things going he come up with the idea that he could release troops to terrorize the locals around about so that would secure all of the land about and one of the groups of soldiers he used were under the Earl of om man's bastard son FR Thomas Butler he was the prior of Kil manum and he was also of the Irish Knights Hospital spiters he had, 1500 men now these men they were saffron cloaked and they were the Irish Kern they were Javelin men and knife men they rode small ponies the king knew all about these he'd seen these ponies and he'd seen these men when he was a boy in Ireland and he knew that when he let them loose on the local population they would terrorize them there will be terrible Bloodshed it will shock the locals stay away or die and you imagine these hordes of Irish men yelping and shouting their war cries the bag pipes javelins being thrown the Norman peasants were absolutely terrified of these Irish Warriors some of them were so bad that the king saw what when they returned to Camp they had severed heads Tethered to their saddle prows the king he thought they'd gone overboard too bad so he had some of them flogged but he did use these Irish troops to bolster some of the dangerous spots along the front of the English fortified camps because the Garrison from Ruan would often Sally Forth and attack the English positions some of these sorties out from ruong with the French soldiers they numbered up to a thousand men so they weren't just little groups attacks they were full on and the King was Furious of what they were doing so any prisoners that were captured any French prisoners that were captured were actually hanged in front of Ruan basically the King was saying to them if we catch you we'll hang you now there were lots of them killed lots of the French were killed in these you know I've put actually some out into the gate house here where they were killed but Alam blad the commander of the crossbowman inside Ruan he did something quite mean he didn't just hang English prisoners in retaliation he strung them up from the battlements with a dog tied around their neck so you can imagine the dog tearing the throat out of these English Bowman then he tied other Bowman inside a sack with a starving dog and then threw them into the river saying the English witnessed all of this and they were Furious they were hateful so the King has got to hold them back on top of all of this the Vicor general of Ru shouts from the battle a message to the king of England he excommunicates him this angers the king but interestingly the king doesn't forget both what the Vicor General has said but also what Alam bonard has done to his men now The Siege was barely a month old when food began to run short inside the city of Ruan now that's no surprise remember 70,000 inhabitants plus the soldiers plus the militia and all of those refugees who've been brought inside on top of all of that the English managed to divert part of the fresh water supply so now not just food is in short supply but also fresh water and plague breaks out the dead pile up in the streets but the ruin a are confident that Aid will be brought to them because they've sent Messengers out that's great isn't it Messengers could get through the lines all the way to Paris begging for help and John of burgundy had promised it he says I will bring an army and we will be there 4 days before Christmas the locals were so confident they rang out the church bells and the English were also afraid of The Burgundian Army it might turn up it might surprise them the king had ordered on one occasion at least that everybody sleep fully armed now the Juke he did come to the age of Ruan but he had a problem his army was made up of burgundians and arcs and about 20 miles outside of Ruan a squabble broke out don't forget These two factions had been at Civil War for years this argument then turns out to be a fullscale fight John Duke of burgundy's army simply disintegrates luong is on its own nobody body is coming to their aid we know what went on in Ruan city after the burundians failed to lift The Siege because there was an eyewitness he would have been a unknown English Soldier his name's John Page he actually wrote an incredibly long poem about what he saw this man was compassionate to the Ruan but he was also loyal to his King and believed in Henry's cause what he says is they had no meat other than horse and when that was gone they ate dogs cats mice and rats peelings of vegetables and dock leaves it recounts how pretty girls sold themselves just for a piece of bread but the King was unmoved by the plight of the Ruan in fact he built extra Earthworks and block houses with cannons bristling on them against any army coming to the relief of ruul but it was at Christmas when tragedy really struck 12,000 of the poor inhabitants starving were actually pushed out of the Town by The Garrison the Elders of the Town hoped that they would be allowed to filter through the English lines and simply go away but no the King was determined to hold them they had his soldiers push them back back into the town ditch now they were trapped it was raining and the rain did not aate people in the ditch died slowly from hunger and John Page tells us how young children as young as two and three were begging with their parents dead in fact I've got just a small verse of this very long poem have a listen to this and woman holding in her arm a dead child and nothing warm and children suckling on the pap within a dead woman's lap he says how in the ditch there could be 10 or 12 dead for every one person alive as horrible as this is the King was determined not to let any out but actually on Christmas day he sends in a priest and servants and food to feed those in the ditch there's also another account where he allowed his soldiers to feed some of the people or the people in the ditch from their own rations so what happens next is quite interesting because the king of England Henry V offers the people of Ruan a chance of a meal come out of Ruan come into the English Camp you will be fed and you will be given your freedom however the commanders of the Garrison believe that it is a trap so no one is allowed to come out now John Page that English Soldier poet he explains how even hunger can breach stone walls and he was right because on the night of New Year's Eve a nobleman for within ruong calls out to the English Camp he wishes to speak to a noble Englishman they wish to negotiate now the negotiations went on for a very long time back and forth back and forth and of course the problem was while the negotiations are going on people are starving to death and in the end the poor people of Ru the ruon themselves had had enough and they turn on the rich calling them traitors murderers and they say unless you come to an agreement we will kill you well in the end it was down to the Archbishop of Canterbury and some of the priests within the town to agree terms and it was on the 19th of January so we're now into 1419 that if the city had not been relieved they would surrender and the King as part of the agreement was given Indemnity of 300,000 gold crowns 80 hostages were handed over just in case the money wasn't paid and on the insistence of the king the Vicor General whose name was Rober de and also the captain of the crossbowman Alam banad were handed over don't forget the Vicor of Ruan had excommunicated the king and the commander of the crossbowman blard had tortured English prisoners so L was bound in Chains and would spend the rest of his life in prison where he would die blard was immediately hanged from the jibit so angry was the king it was not until the afternoon of the 19th of January 1419 that the keys were actually handed over to Henry V it was later on that he rode into Ruan City but what he saw was people in the streets starving hollowed eyes pinched nose pale skin and corpses lying all around in the streets and crowds begging for food so the king ordered that food be brought into Ruan to feed the the Ruan who were now his loal subjects but even though they were now being fed death continued for days in fact they died quicker than the carts could collect them for burial how sad The Defenders of ruam were were allowed to leave this was part of the terms of the surrendered deal but they were escorted out of Ruan by English soldiers all the way to the wooden bridge that had been built over the river San which was now called the bridge St George now there they were stopped searched relieved of any money or valuables and given two sues basically two pennies and allowed to go on their way any wealthy looking merchants or nobleman were also relieved of their wealth and handsome coats and gold embroidered were taken off them and they were given old garments in return and allowed to proceed all of the proceeds from this went to swell the king's coffers word of what had happened at spread like wild fire throughout Normandy towns surrendered here and there in fact some towns surrendered and there were no English there such was the fear of the king of of England and his English army well I hope you enjoyed that video of ours if you did like share and subscribe but if you'd like to support our Channel further why not have a look at joining our patreon community the link is in the description now before I go a quick shout out to some of my patreon members now I've got it written down here so I don't get the names wrong here we go hey guys swamp waterer Christine Anna flyer Bowman and quoth no there's some great names there hey guys thanks a million bye for 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