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Chevauchée Of Edward III (1346)
Chevauchée of Edward III may refer to: * Chevauchée of Edward III of 1339, in Northern France * Chevauchée of Edward III in 1346, in Northern France *A planned chevauchée of Edward III in 1356, from Calais into Northern France, which did not proceed *Burnt Candlemas, a chevauchée of Edward III through Lothian Lothian (; ; ) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills. The principal settlement is the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, while other signific ..., Scotland in 1356 * Chevauchée of Edward III in 1359-1360, in Northern France {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevauchée Of Edward III Of 1339
A ''chevauchée'' (, "promenade" or "horse charge", depending on context) was a raiding method of medieval warfare for weakening the enemy, primarily by burning and pillaging enemy territory in order to reduce the productivity of a region, in addition to siege warfare most often as part of wars of conquest but occasionally as a punitive raid. The use of the ''chevauchée'' declined at the end of the 14th century as the focus of warfare turned to sieges. It is conceptually similar to the scorched earth strategies used in modern warfare. In Spain, this type of raid was usually called a ''cabalgada''cabalgada in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. (older spelling: ''cavalgada''). The [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crécy Campaign
The Crécy campaign was a series of large-scale raids (''chevauchées'') conducted by the Kingdom of England throughout northern France in 1346 that devastated the French countryside on a wide front, culminating in the Battle of Crécy. The campaign was part of the Hundred Years' War. The campaign began on 12 July 1346, with the landing of English troops in Normandy, and ended with the capitulation of Calais on 3 August 1347. The English army was led by King Edward III, and the French by King Philip VI. Edward was under pressure from the English Parliament to end the war either by negotiation or with a victory. As his forces gathered, Edward vacillated as to where in France he would land. Eventually he decided to sail for Gascony, to succour the Duke of Lancaster, who was facing the much larger main French army. Hampered by contrary winds, Edward instead made a surprise landing on the nearest part of France, the northern Cotentin Peninsula. The English devastated mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnt Candlemas
Burnt Candlemas was a failed invasion of Scotland in early 1356 by an English army commanded by King Edward III of England, Edward III, and was the last campaign of the Second War of Scottish Independence. Tensions on the Anglo-Scottish border led to a military build-up by both sides in 1355. In September a nine-month truce was agreed, and most of the English forces left for northern France to take part in a Edward III's chevauchée of 1355, campaign of the concurrent Hundred Years' War. A few days after agreeing the truce, the Scots, encouraged and subsidised by the French, broke it, invading and devastating Northumberland. In late December the Scots escaladed and Sieges of Berwick (1355 and 1356), captured the important English-held border town of Berwick-on-Tweed and laid siege to its Berwick Castle, castle. The English army redeployed from France to Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle in northern England. The English advanced to Berwick, retaking the town, and moved to Roxburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothian
Lothian (; ; ) is a region of the Scottish Lowlands, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills and the Moorfoot Hills. The principal settlement is the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, while other significant towns include Livingston, Linlithgow, Bathgate, Queensferry, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Penicuik, Musselburgh, Prestonpans, Tranent, North Berwick, Dunbar and Haddington. Historically, the term Lothian referred to a province encompassing most of what is now southeastern Scotland. In the 7th century it came under the control of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia, the northern part of the later kingdom of Northumbria, but the Angles' grip on Lothian was weakened following the Battle of Nechtansmere in which they were defeated by the Picts. Subsequent Scottish history saw the region subdivided into three counties—Midlothian, East Lothian, and West Lothian—leading to the popular designation of "the Lothians". Etymology The ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
