On this day: July 17, 1453 King Henry VI’s English forces, led by John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, were defeated by the French at the battle of Castillon in Gascony. Neither side realized it at the time, but this encounter would come to be known as the final battle of the Hundred Years’ War. … Continue reading OTD 1453: End of the Hundred Years’ War