The White Company is a historical adventure novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War.

At the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves an abbey where he has been raised—intelligent, skilled and well liked, though sheltered and naive—and goes out to see the world, in accordance with the terms of his father's will.

There, they make friends with veteran archer Sam Aylward who has returned to England from France to recruit for the White Company of mercenaries.

Aylward and John continue to Christchurch, while Alleyne detours to visit his older brother, the socman or landlord of Minstead, whose fierce reputation has grown to wickedness.

The socman threatens a lovely maiden, Maude, who escapes with Alleyne's aid and they flee on foot to find her horse.

The Spanish and French attack them in a narrow ravine, where the mighty warriors are almost all destroyed and the Company must disband—only seven bowmen remain, including John.

Alleyne returns to England victorious with John as his squire, only to learn from a lady on the road that Maude and her mother had news that none of the White Company had survived.

The lady said that love of a "golden-haired squire", who was presumed dead with the fighters, had caused Maude to decide to join a nunnery.

While there was a real knight named Sir Nigel Loring at the time when the novel is set, the historical record supplied few details and his role in the book is largely Doyle's invention.

He wrote the entire novel in solitude in a small New Forest cottage, chiefly in an attempt to capture the history and splendour of the region.