Battle of Ardres
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| Battle of Ardres | |||||||
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| Part of Hundred Years' War | |||||||
 Brignais ( 1362 ).The French army is defeated by the Great Companies , bands of ravaging mercenaries to France during the war of Hundred Years | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of France | Kingdom of England | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Lord of Beaujeu † |
Baron Beauchamp | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 600 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown, but much lighter | 600 killed or captured | ||||||
The Battle of Ardres was fought on 6 June 1351 between
Hundred Years War
. The French won.
Prelude
The new English commander of Calais
John de Beauchamp had been leading a raid around the region surrounding Saint-Omer with a force of some 300 men-at-arms and 300 mounted archers, when he was discovered by a French force led by Édouard I de Beaujeu, Lord of Beaujeu, the French commander on the march of Calais, near Ardres. The French moved to surround the English, trapping them upon a bend on the river. Beaujeu made all of his men dismount before they attacked, after lessons were learned from the 1349 Battle of Lunalonge
under similar conditions when they kept too many of their men mounted, dividing their forces too quickly, which caused the French to lose the battle.
The battle
In the fighting, Édouard I de Beaujeu was killed, but with the help of reinforcements from the garrison of Saint-Omer, the French defeated the English. John Beauchamp was one of many English captured.[1]
References
- ^ "Timeline of the Hundred Years War 1351-55". Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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