"So, Crécy and Azincourt were not decisive"

Rofl, of course Crecy and Agincourt were decisive in the context of the HYW. Crecy pretty much destroyed the French royal host and also gave the English the template for all their future expeditions and battles. Agincourt was decisive because if it hadn't been won Henry V's army would have been destroyed, he would have been killed, captured or at any rate discredited, and in all probability the war would have ended much sooner than 1453.

Formigny and Castillion were not decisive. Your argument on this point is a colossal contradiction- first you point out (accurately) that the English had already lost vast areas and been defeated over and over again, and then you claim (erroneously) that battles which did not and could not have reversed this disaster for the English were "decisive". That is illogical; a battle cannot be decisive if the outcome of the war has already been decided by other events; by definition the battle decides absolutely nothing and that was essentially the case with Castillion and Formigny. You may as well claim that the Battle of Berlin was decisive "because it was the last" on the Eastern Front of WWII, even though by that time Nazi Germany was utterly doomed.

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