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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of England.
A French force under the duke of Bourbon and Richemont defeats an English force under Thomas Kyriell. 3,774 English deaths and 1,500 captured. Thomas Kyriel, the English general, was captured in action. 1453 Battle of Castillon: France A French army, under Jean Bureau, defeats an English army under John Talbot to end the Hundred Years' War ...
Hundred Years' War: 4,000 [222] Battle of Chojnice: 1454 Thirteen Years' War: ... United States military casualties of war – Military personnel casualties of the ...
For many years in the Isles of Scilly, the local legend was that the state of war was still in effect. [ 4 ] In 1986, Roy Duncan, historian and Chairman of the Isles of Scilly Council , decided to investigate and wrote to the Dutch Embassy in London .
Society at War: The Experience of England and France During the Hundred Years War. New York: Harper & Row Publishers; Allmand, C. T. (1988). The Hundred Years War: England and France at war, c. 1300–c. 1450. New York: Cambridge Press. Burne, A. H. "The Battle of Castillon, 1453: the end of the Hundred Years War" History Today (Apr 1953) 3#4 ...
The Battle of Agincourt (/ ˈædʒɪnkɔːr (t)/ AJ-in-kor (t); [a] French: Azincourt [azɛ̃kuʁ]) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France. [b] The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale ...
The Gascon campaign of 1345 was conducted by Henry, Earl of Derby, as part of the Hundred Years' War. The whirlwind campaign took place between August and November 1345 in Gascony, an English -controlled territory in south-west France. Derby, commanding an Anglo-Gascon force, oversaw the first successful English land campaign of the war.