I don't know if you have noticed that France not only likes to surrender, the crystal hometown is stolen, and the French emperor is particularly easy to be captured!
Just a brief look at the historical data, the French emperor entered the list of prisoners not only our European glory Mr. Napoleon, but also King Louis IX, John II, King François I of France, and the influential Emperor Napoleon III, who was captured in the Battle of Sedan.
We can't help but wonder why the King of France was so easily capturedCould it be that the passive skill of the King of France is so rebellious?
Is the milk method imposed by acquired prejudice, or is it the root of congenital insufficiency?
Today we will talk about the reasons why the king of France was easily captured, and what impact these famous captured tragedies had!
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If you were to ask who was the best king in the history of France, some would say Napoleon, but if you were to ask who was the most perfect French king, most French people would point to King Louis IX of France.
As the perfect monster in the eyes of other rulers of his time, and the ideal king in the mouth of scholars, Louis IX was the guardian of justice, and even conquered the world with his noble moral sentiments, earning him the title of Saint Louis.
It is said that this noble monarch washed the feet of the poor, helped the people, and went to a leprosy hospital to care for the sick.
In 1254, the holy monarch promulgated a "King's Charter", which contained a series of laws and regulations, ranging from prohibiting local ** to abusing power for personal gain to prohibiting gambling and other major and small things.
It's such a good king, and he actually got on the wrecked ship of the Crusades!
Louis was considered to be both civil and military, starting from 1230 when he was not yet 16 years old, he fought for forty years, settled England, and put down the rebellion of the local nobility.
In the spring of 1250 A.D., the Seventh Crusade was carried out by the French king. During the attack on the Egyptian city of Mansura, the king's younger brother, Robert of Artois, did not wait for the king's troops, and led 300 knights into the city of Mansoura, but the whole army was destroyed, and the younger brother was also killed.
The Egyptian army rushed straight to the king's camp, Louis IX failed to retreat, was overtaken by the Egyptians, and poor Saint Louis was captured and finally ransomed with a heavy sum.
European kings were often captured, as medieval battles were generally led by cavalry, especially heavy cavalry composed of nobles, first. The king was the leader of the knightly class, and he had to charge into battle to strengthen the loyalty of the knightly nobles, and the European kings themselves had far less control over the lower classes than the Eastern empires. And for the captured king, it will generally be treated preferentially, used to demand a large amount of ransom, a human life is only worth a few dollars, and the king's life is of course more suitable for exchange for money.
Speaking of the failure of this Crusade, the main force of the Crusades, the Knights Templar suffered extremely heavy losses as a result, and the defeat of the Seventh Crusade marked the beginning of the decline of the Templar Order, and the Crusades movement was no longer sustainable.
Twenty years later, Louis IX died on the way to the Eighth Crusade, and the Crusades were effectively over.
The defeat of the Crusades also greatly weakened the ability of religious power to intervene in the secular world, and King Philip IV of France even forced the puppet Pope Clement V to dissolve the Templar Order. The strengthening of the French king's dominance set France on the path to European domination.
After the gradual withdrawal of religious power from the European power arena, a modern Europe woke up, and the Renaissance strode forward with the corpse of religious rights.
In 1356, during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, King John II of France and King Edward III of England sent his eldest son Edward, who liked to wear black armor, to land in France with an army.
The Black Prince came to France with an army of about 6,000 men. He avoided a head-to-head confrontation with the French and plundered along the way.
King John II of France led about 18,000 men at Poitiers to intercept the British army. A discerning person will know at a glance that the French army is 3 times larger than the British army, and it is still fighting at home, and it is almost certain to win. Moreover, the French had already cut off their retreat from the flanks.
Edward wanted peace and was willing to return his captives and territory, as well as pay reparations. However, our John II refused: Lao Tzu wants you to be my prisoner!
Thus the milestone of the Milk Law - the Battle of Poitiers began!
The next morning, the British army feigned to flee and lured the French to attack, and the French army was fooled, and about 300 cavalry of the forward force rushed towards the British position, but the forward troops were fired by the British archers in ambush, and the square inch was in confusion and suffered heavy losses.
After that, the French sent their main forces to storm the British positions, and the British defenses collapsed, and the positions were about to be taken. John II himself led the last 6,000 cavalry into battle, preparing to reap the fruits of victory and capture Edward.
Suddenly, a group of British troops appeared behind the French army. 60 hoplites and 100 archers sneaked up on the French from behind through the valley.
The French mistakenly believed that there were a large number of British troops behind, and the formation immediately collapsed. Seeing this, Edward led his cavalry to charge, aiming directly at John II. The British attacked from both sides, the French soldiers fled and scattered, and the remaining French troops were captured by the British.
John II and his two sons were also successfully captured by the British, and the eldest son, Charles, fled the battlefield, ending the famous Battle of Poitiers with a British victory. John II became the first and only French king to be captured during the Hundred Years' War.
Five years after he was captured in England, the British released him, not because the British conscience found out, but because John was going to raise a ransom!
John II was also a man of credibility and actively raised ransom money. Even the good man John, after learning that his son, who had been a prisoner in his place, had escaped, returned to England and continued to work as a prisoner. How can France not be loved?
But the capture of John II, which represented the first phase of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, ended in the defeat of France. France's status as a great power took a sharp turn for the worse, and the huge war reparations and ransoms demanded by the British, combined with the effects of the famine, led to the collapse of France's internal economy, which led to the Paris Uprising and the Zachary peasant revolt in northern France. In the first phase of the Hundred Years' War, France was completely on the back foot.
The battle between England and France began with the capture of the French king, and the war between France and his traditional continental enemies was equally indescribable.
In 1519, King Carlos I of Spain, who had dominated Europe and almost unified Europe, was elected Holy Roman Emperor.
At this time, Italy was divided into city-states that were entrenched in the power of France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire.
After Carlos became emperor of the so-called Holy Roman Empire, France was surrounded by Carlos, and the two sides began to compete on the battle front.
In 1524, King François I of France personally led an army of 40,000 troops to attack Italy, preparing to reoccupy northern Italy. Spain retreated to the city of Pavia, and France could not attack it for a long time. The 20,000 Spanish reinforcements rushed to the rescue, and the war was about to break out.
On February 24, 1525, 20,000 Spanish reinforcements led by the commander Marquis de Pescara sneaked into the forest, where the French cavalry could not function and the Spanish musketeers completely crushed the French army.
After a scuffle, the French king's pikemen and heavy cavalry were almost completely annihilated, more than 10,000 French troops were killed, the French king was captured again, and the Spanish lost only a thousand men, which was a complete victory.
King François I of France lived up to the traditions of his predecessors and became a prisoner of the enemy. Immediately afterwards, François I signed the Treaty of Madrid, ceding West Burgundy and Flanders to Spain.
However, the French king was not as honest as John II, and after being released by Carlos, he immediately denied it!
What treaty?That's called emergency avoidance, it doesn't count!
If there is one of the most well-known and influential French emperors who were captured among them, it must be Napoleon III.
France and Germany were the two most powerful countries on the European continent, especially after the rise of Prussia, a major war between France and the German nation was inevitable.
A decision must be made between the two on the question of the belonging of the European continent.
The trigger for the war was the question of succession to the throne in Spain, as Queen Isabella II of Spain was overthrown and the throne was vacant, while Prince Leopold, a distant relative of King William I of Prussia, had the opportunity to succeed.
And France, after William I made it clear that he would not touch the throne, still threatened William I, demanding that he never touch the Spanish throne. This news was learned by Bismarck, who deliberately provoked the war, so he sent a telegram to add fuel to the fire, and Napoleon III, who also deliberately provoked the war, saw this and declared war on Prussia "very tacitly". The famous Franco-Prussian War broke out.
Although the Franco-Prussian War was very important, it lasted less than 1 year.
Less than 2 months after the outbreak of the war, on September 2, 1870, Napoleon III officially took 830,000 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Prussian army, became Prussian prisoners, and continued the predecessors of the French kings before the cos.
In this battle of Sedan, together with the surrender of Napoleon III, the French army suffered a total of 10Of the 40,000 men, the Prussian army lost only more than 9,000 men. France was in an uproar.
Taking advantage of the king's absence, the French bourgeoisie immediately established the French Third Republic. In the Franco-Prussian War, France changed from an aggressor to a self-defender and began to organize an army to resist the Prussian attack.
Prussia was well prepared for the war, and its equipment and operational concept were far superior to those of France, which led to the defeat of France.
In December 1870, Prussian soldiers bombarded Paris with 502 heavy guns. In the end, France surrendered, signed an armistice, paid indemnities, and handed over the artillery**. William I, King of Prussia, was crowned emperor at the Palace of Versailles in France. The French people, who had suffered great humiliation, launched an uprising and established the world's first socialist regime, the Paris Commune.
After being captured for half a year, Napoleon III went into exile with his wife and children. He spent the rest of his life here in guilt and pain. As he was dying, he said to the doctor beside him, "Were you in Sedan at that time?"”
In this story, Napoleon III is undoubtedly a stupid loser, he was not a good military strategist, but his statecraft was extraordinary.
When Napoleon III came to power, France was still an agrarian country, in order to be able to give the country the industrial capacity to compete for hegemony. He founded an industrial credit bank dedicated to investing in French industry, providing a powerful impetus for the Industrial Revolution by raising funds from the French people to buy new industrial companies.
By 1870, the total length of railways in France had increased fivefold, freight traffic had increased tenfold, and the total industrial output had doubled, making it the second largest in the world after Great Britain. France became a true industrial power, rivaling or even surpassing the glory of Napoleon's Bonaparte period.
The market capitalization of the Paris Exchange soared, and France became a creditor of the emperors, with enough financial power to influence European politics. If Napoleon III had been able to think calmly about the war situation in Europe, seriously consider the necessity of war, and polish his military strength, then it would not be certain that the hegemony of the European continent would have died.
The frequent capture of French kings was only a norm in European wars, and while kings were rarely killed in war, the consequences of being captured were even worse than death in battle. In the royal families of Europe, where knightly honor was the foundation of their lives, it was neither honorable nor lucky, but on the contrary, it would seriously undermine the trust and loyalty of all classes, especially the bourgeois knightly class, to the king.
At the same time, a large amount of ransom and land reparations put the people's lives in dire straits, and peasant uprisings and burghers' revolutions were almost inevitable, followed by the collapse of the dynasty and the death of the king.
Therefore, I hereby exhort you with great sincerity: if you become king one day, do not be captured!
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