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The Battle of Halmyros, of Orchomenos, or of the Cephissus was fought on March 15, 1311 between the Frankish Greek forces of Walter V of Brienne and the mercenaries of the Catalan Company, resulting in a devastating victory for the Catalans.
In the morass covering the Catalan front, the cavalry soon became hopelessly mired, the Duke and his banner falling in a rain of assegais from the almogavars.
Halmyros is sometimes compared to the Battle of Agincourt where light, missile-armed troops were able to defeat heavily encumbered opponents hindered by adverse terrain.
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 RE: Legends of Ancient Greece!
The Company attacked, defeated and killed Brienne on March 15, 1311 in the battle of Halmyros on the river Cephissus in Boeotia, and thus took control of the duchy of Athens.
Duke Rock or Rocky as I like to call him, is a direct descendant of the Catalan Company who occupied the area under the control of the Duke of Athens for a couple of years.
That is they gained control of Athens after "The Company attacked, defeated and killed Brienne on March 15, 1311 in the battle of Halmyros on the river Cephissus in Boeotia" Thus two battles fought by the Catalan Company once as attackers and the other as defenders between 1275 and 1311 CE.
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  Battle of Halmyros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Halmyros, of Orchomenos, or of the Cephissus was fought on March 15, 1311 between the Frankish Greek forces of Walter V of Brienne and the mercenaries of the Catalan Company, resulting in a devastating victory for the Catalans.
In the morass covering the Catalan front, the cavalry soon became hopelessly mired, the Duke and his banner falling in a rain of assegais from the almogavars.
Halmyros is sometimes compared to the Battle of Agincourt: light, missile-armed troops were able to defeat heavily encumbered opponents hindered by adverse terrain.
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Back of these trenches, and down that side of the hill which was farther from the enemy, were the reserves, who sprawled at length in the long grass, and smoked and talked and watched the shells dropping into the gully at their feet.
The battle that had begun in a storm of hail ended on the first day in a storm of bullets that had been held in reserve by the Turks, and which let off just after sundown.
White men and colored men, veterans and recruits and volunteers, each lay waiting for the battle to begin or to end so that he might be carried away to safety, for the wounded were in as great danger after they were hit as though they were in the firing line, but none questioned nor complained.
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The longbowmen were hired, in particular, and that was the effect of the French defeat at the battle of Crécy.
At the battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French reliance on armored cavalry was their downfall.
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 A Brief History of Crete
The only memento of the battle is the renaming of the river Amnisos after the general.
Innumerable battles, on every spot of Cretan soil where a battle could be fought, mark the bloody struggle of the Cretans against their new conquerors.
The island was under an inept and corrupt rule; taxation crushed it; it was devoid of intellectual or spiritual activity, and, despite a reputed tolerance, its religious convictions were inceasingly menaced.
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933 - After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the river Unstrut.
1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
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He fought the battle of Koundoura, but his army was beaten back by the knights and took to flight.
Deprived of his authority over the Morea, Michael returned to Epiros to defend the north-west of Greece against the invaders and lay the foundations of the Despotate of Epiros.
The principal strongholds of the Latins in this area appear to have been Larisa, Halmyros, and Velestino.
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1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
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The Battle of Halmyros was fought on March 15, 1311 between the French forces of Walter V of Brienne and the mercenaries of the Catalan Company.
Walter V had hired the Catalans to fight the Greeks, but attacked them when they refused to leave Greece.
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 The Despotate of Epiros 1204-1340
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 55 - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Knights Templar Chronology
(27 June) Battle of the Field of Blood
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 John II Doukas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frightened by their disobedience, Walter now turned against them, but the Catalans invaded his duchy in 1310.
When the two forces clashed, Walter was defeated and killed in the Battle of Halmyros or Kephissos in 1311.
With the Catalans moving into Boeotia, Attica, and the Gulf of Corinth coast, John II was able to exert more control over Thessaly.
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