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The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, during the Hundred Years' War. It took place in western France, 5 miles (8 km) south of Poitiers , when approximately 14,000 to 16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held ...
The Battle of Tours, [6] also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat Balāṭ ash-Shuhadā'), [7] was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul.
Then war continued, and the English were victorious at the Battle of Poitiers (1356) where the French king, John II, was captured and held for ransom. The Truce of Bordeaux was signed in 1357 and was followed by two treaties in London in 1358 and 1359 .
The Battle of Poitiers was a disaster for the French as a result of superior defensive position and strategy allowing the use of English longbows effectively. As at the Battle of Agincourt sixty years later, many French forces did not fully participate.
The Battle of Sluys, 1340, in the Gruuthuse MS The Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in a manuscript of c. 1410, which mixes scenes with patterned and (as here) naturalistic backgrounds Illuminated page from c. 1480 manuscript of Book II depicting Richard II at the Peasants' Revolt and at the death of Wat Tyler, 1381
Oh the eve of battle, Sculley demands the sword, and Bessières gives it to him. However, in the Battle of Poitiers, the French are routed after a long, hard-fought fight, panicking after being attacked in the rear by a small force led by the Captal de Buch and including Thomas and many of his archers. Thomas's men take prisoner the Archbishop ...
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Français : Carte de la bataille de Poitiers entre l'armée anglaise du Prince noir Edouard de Woodstock et l'armée du roi de France Jean II. Les deux cents cavaliers cachés dans le bois contournent les lignes françaises et inversent le cours de la bataille, au profit des Anglais.