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Tibetan calendar. 阴金蛇年. (female Iron- Snake) 1468 or 1087 or 315. — to —. 阳水马年. (male Water- Horse) 1469 or 1088 or 316. Year 1342 ( MCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
1469 or 1088 or 316. 1342 ( MCCCXLII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1342nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 342nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 14th century, and the 3rd year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1342, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ...
NGC 1342, sometimes also known as the Stingray Cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by William Herschel on 28 December 1799. It is located in the south of the constellation, almost halfway between Algol (β Persei) and ζ Persei , away from the plane of the Milky Way.
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- War of Breton Succession
- Modern Interpretations of The Battle
- Outcome of The Battle
- Sources
Context
In 1341 John III, Duke of Brittany died without leaving an heir. The question of the succession ignited a civil war in sovereign duchy of Brittany which lasted about 25 years initially between John's half brother, John of Montfort and his niece Joan, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles of Blois. Charles and Joan had the support of the Breton nobility and clergy while John was an outsider whose main concentration of power was in the Île de France. However, Charles was also the nephew of Phili...
Relieving the Siege of Brest
Initially, Edward III of England could do little to help the de Montforts, he had his own problems at home, but eventually he felt able to send a small force under Sir Walter Mauny to aid them. As a result of Mauny's initial successes, Edward decided to send a larger force of knights and archers under the command of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton. For a long time its departure was delayed and by the time they arrived in Brittany, John de Montfort was a prisoner of the Franco-Breton...
English Relief Force Moves inland
From Brest, Northampton moved inland and there are few details of what happened during this journey but eventually he reached Morlaix, one of Charles de Blois’ strongholds.
Burne
A.H. Burne,attributes huge numbers to the Franco-Bretons, maintaining that each of the Franco-Bretons divisions outnumbered the whole English army. According to Burne's reconstruction, the infantry column attacked first and was sent reeling back by volleys of arrows before it even contacted the English line of dismounted knights. After a consultation between the commanders the second column of cavalry attacked and many were brought down by falling into the pits that had been dug by the Englis...
Sumption
Jonathan Sumptiongives an alternative description of the battle which, while not contradicting Burne's battle order for the English, depicts the actions of the French nobility in a way that is far more in line with other battles of the 100 Years War. According to Sumption, the first attack was mounted not by the infantry but by Franco-Breton cavalry under the command of Geoffrey de Charny. These reached the English positions but were thrown back in disarray and de Charny himself captured. Aft...
DeVries
Kelly DeVries 'Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th. Century' seems to follow the existing chronicle sources more closely than the Burne and Sumption and he gives a different account of the deployment of the English army. He maintains that the archers were intermingled with the men-at-arms because the knights were so few and also that the archers were given other weapons than their longbows which seems to imply that the English used no archery at all.[citation needed] Like Sumption he maintains...
Whatever the details of the fighting, the final result was that 50 French knights were killed and 150 French captured including Geoffrey de Charny and a number of ‘populari’ which seems to indicate that at least some of the infantry were involved in the melee. The English force now made apprehensive by the remaining French forces withdrew into the ...
Sumption, Jonathan ‘The Hundred Years War Volume 1 Trial by Battle’ Faber 1992Burne, Lt. Col. Alfred H. ‘The Crécy War’ Greenhill 1990DeVriess, Kelly ‘Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th. Century’ Boydell 1996Ayton, A & Preston P ‘ The Battle of Crécy 1346’ Boydell 2005- 30 September 1342
- Morlaix, France
- French victory
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Suomi: Vuosi 1342 Englannissa. Svenska: England under 1342. England in the 1340s ...
Year 1342 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
