re: History Thread, Not WW2 Related: What is Britian's single greatest victory?

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Agincourt and Crecy were impressive

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This. These two (along with Poiters) and the rest of the hundred years war were important not just as victories but for a couple of other reasons:

This war pretty much made England and France into the countries they are as opposed to feuding provinces (I think prior to this war the English kings valued their holdings on the continent as much if not more than their English ones).

Also, if I'm not mistaken the development of the English long-bowmen marked a movement towards more widespread use of commoners in combat. And it marked somewhat of a movement towards integrated war planning in that the very long term training of the bowmen, the manufacture of the bows, the arrows, the fletching and the specialized armor piercing arrowheads took some coordination.