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Known for. reforms to the French artillery force. Bureau's coat-of-arms. Jean Bureau (c. 1390 – 1463) was a French artillery commander active primarily during the later years of the Hundred Years' War. Along with his brother, Gaspard, he is credited with making French artillery the most effective in the world. [1]
Jean Bureau, Master Gunner of France at Castillon - Warfare History Network. No other Frenchman was more responsible for France's rapid victories in Normandy and at Castillon than Jean Bureau. by William E. Welsh.
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Battle of Castillon. The death of the English commander John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury and the defeat of his Anglo-Gascon army by the French artillery general Jean Bureau on 17th July 1453 in the battle that ended English dominion over Gascony and brought the Hundred Years War between England and France to a close.
Having lost all patience with the Gascons, Charles VII fined the city 100,000 gold crowns for resisting his authority. He also banished the nobles who supported the English. For his service to the crown, Charles appointed Jean Bureau as Bordeaux’s mayor for life. The Hundred Years’ War, once and for all, was over. Back to the issue this ...
In the following summer French forces, powerfully armed with Jean Bureau’s recently introduced field artillery, approached for a second reconquest of Guyenne—to start with the siege of the pro-English stronghold of Castillon, on the lower Dordogne River upstream from Libourne.
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Jean Bureau (ca. 1390–1463) was a French artillery commander active primarily during the later years of the Hundred Years' War. Along with his brother, Gaspard, he is credited with making French artillery the most effective in the world. [1] As Master Gunner of Artillery in the armies of Charles...
The day after the battle, Jean Bureau besieged the castle with his artillery, and the defenders surrendered on 19 July, becoming prisoners of war. With Talbot's death and the destruction of his army, English authority in Gascony eroded and the French retook Bordeaux on 19 October.
