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The Battle of Saint-Omer, fought on 26 July 1340, was a major engagement in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War, during Edward III's 1340 summer campaign against France launched from Flanders. The campaign was initiated in the aftermath of the English naval victory at the Battle of Sluys but was far less successful than Edward had hoped.
Battle of Saint-Omer: France The battle of Saint-Omer was the culmination of the northern fork of Edward's campaign and resulted in a tactical stalemate but forced a strategic withdrawal for the Anglo-Flemish forces. 1340 Siege of Tournai (1340) France Tournai was relieved. 1341 Battle of Champtoceaux: France 1342 Battle of Brest: England 1342
The siege of Saint-Omer (24 May – 16 July 1638) was a siege in the Thirty Years' War in which a French army under Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, laid siege to the Flemish city of Saint-Omer, defended by a small garrison in command of Lancelot II Schetz, count of Grobbendonck.
24 June – Hundred Years' War: The Battle of Sluys is fought between the naval fleets of England and France. The battle ends with the almost complete destruction of the French fleet. [2] 26 July – Hundred Years' War: French victory at the Battle of Saint-Omer.
[5] [8] At the end of July, the survivors of the Battle of Saint-Omer arrived at Tournai and joined the siege. Later, these forces would be reinforced by the troops of John III, the Duke of Brabant. [5] Upon their arrival, the coalition surrounded the city and constructed siege engines.
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The campaign resulted in the defeat of an Anglo-Flemish force, carrying out a small scale chevauchée in the County of Artois, at the Battle of Saint-Omer, an unsuccessful siege of Tournai and ended with meeting of the English and French armies at Bouvines without battle.
Coordinated French and Dutch attacks on the Spanish Netherlands in May 1638 forced Spain to abandon a planned offensive in Artois.Despite fighting on two fronts simultaneously, the Spanish Army of Flanders managed to defeat the Dutch at Kallo in June while Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano and the Imperial auxiliary corps under Ottavio Piccolomini lifted the French Siege of Saint-Omer in July.