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Prussia conquered by the Poles at the battle of Puck.
Battle of Bosworth: Richard III, last of the Plantagenet Kings of England, is defeated and killed in battle; Henry VII becomes King, first of the Tudor dynasty.
Venetian fleet defeated by the Ottomans at the battle of Sapienza.
Battle of Dyrrhachium: — Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force commanded by Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France.
Battle of the Boyne, as reckoned under Julian calendar or July 12 under Gregorian calendar.
The British decisively defeated the French at the battle of Agincourt on October 25th.
In July 1495 the French lost the Battle of Fornovo and Charles was forced to flee Italy.
The Christian armies were led by Hunyadi who acheived two important victories, the first at the battle of Hermanstadt, and then at the battle of Nissa in which the Ottomans are driven from Bulgaria.
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The two sides met at the village of Cravant in Burgundy, at a bridge and ford on the banks of the river Yonne, a right-bank tributary of the Loire, southwest of Orléans.
Extraordinarily, a Battle was fought on the same field in the Franco-Prussian War, December 8, 9, and 10, 1870.
It is usually referred to as the Battle of Beaugency-Cravant.
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The battle of Crécy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War.
The Genoese crossbowmen were outshot by the English longbows and the pattern was set for the rest of the day: the French cavalry were committed piecemeal in fruitless charges against strong English positions, losing perhaps 10,000 men in the course of the fighting.
Medieval art prints and ancient historical prints from the Battle of Thermopylae, Salamis and Roman history to medieval battles from the Hundred years war to the War of the Roses.
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Standing armies represented an entirely new form of power for kings, not only could they defend from invaders, armies could protect the King from internal threats and also keep the population in check; it was a major step in early developments towards new monarchies and nations and entirely broke down the Medieval 3 orders.
Someone like Bertrand Du Guesclin was said to have gone in to battle with one eye closed, declaring "I will not Open my eye for the honor of my lady until I have killed three Englishmen".
1428 Battle of Orléans English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury with duke of Bedford besiege French city and are driven off with the loss of their siege engines by Joan with a contribution from Scots forces.
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English forces destroy French at Battle of Agincourt
In the summer of 1423, when two armies, one English, one Burgundian, gathered at Auxerre to meet a Dauphinist army marching into Burgundy for Bourges.
The Dauphinists, numbering perhaps 10,000, were drawn up on to the Eastern bank, the Anglo-Burgundians, totalling perhaps 4,000 men, under the Earl of Salisbury, who had continued to command the English field army after the death of the Duke of Clarence at Baugé;, on the Western one.
Flushed with victory, the English and Burgundians looked forward to conquering the rest of France.
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Nothing is so trying as a continuous, terrific barrage such as we experienced in this battle, especially the intense English fire during my second night at the front...
