On the landing of an English force under Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, a general revolt restored to the English their possessions on the Garonne.

Somerset used this break of better fortune to obtain heavy subsidies from Parliament in 1453; but ere the twenty thousand men whose levy was voted could cross the Channel a terrible blow had again ruined the English cause.

In a march to relieve Castillon on the Dordogne Shrewsbury suddenly found himself face to face with the whole French army.
His men were mown down by its guns, and the Earl himself left dead on the field.

His fall was the signal for a general submission.

Town after town again threw open its gates to Charles, and Bordeaux capitulated in October.
[Sidenote: Madness of the King] The final loss of Gascony fell upon England at a moment when two events at home changed the whole face of affairs.