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The Battle of Beaugency took place on 16 - 17 June, 1429. It was one of Joan of Arc's battles. Shortly after relieving the siege at Orléans, French forces recaptured the neighboring district along the Loire river. This campaign was the first sustained French offensive in a generation in the Hundred Years' War. A map of Europe in the 1430s, at the height of the Hundred Years War The Hundred Years War is the name modern historians have given to what was actually a series of related conflicts, fought over a 116-year period, between the Kingdom of England and France; beginning in...
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Beaugency: A country located around Germany in the back hills of france ...
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Background
Beaugency was a small town on the northern bank of the Loire river in central France. It controlled a bridge of strategic significance during the latter part of the war. Conquered by the English a few years earlier as a staging point for a planned invasion of southern France, the French attack recaptured the bridge and the town, providing a vital supply conduit for the summer offensive in the north and the coronation of King Charles VII of France. Beaugency: A country located around Germany in the back hills of france ...
Loire is a département in the east-central part of France occupying the Loire Rivers upper reaches. ...
Charles VII the Victorious, a. ...
The French Loire campaign of 1429 consisted of five actions:
- 1. The Siege of Orléans.
- 2. The Battle of Jargeau.
- 3. The Battle of Meung-sur-Loire.
- 4. The Battle of Beaugency.
- 5. The Battle of Patay.
Virtually all of France north of the Loire had fallen to foreign occupation by the end of 1428. The bridge at Orléans had been destroyed shortly before the siege lifted. The French had lost control of all other river crossings. Three swift and numerically small battles at Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire, and Beaugency demonstrated renewed French confidence and laid the groundwork for subsequent French offenses on Rheims and Paris. The Loire campaign killed, captured, or disgraced a majority of the top tier of English commanders and decimated the numbers of the highly skilled English longbowmen. The Siege of Orl ans was the first French victory of Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War and turning point of great war between France and England. ...
The Battle of Patay was a battle in the Hundred Years War between the French and English in 1429 in north-central France. ...
Reims (English traditionally Rheims) is a city of north-eastern France, 98 miles east-northeast of Paris. ...
The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
The English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, was a powerful type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 2. ...
French recruitment swelled following the victory at Orléans. During the assault on Beaugency one volunteer caused a particular stir among the French command. Constable Arthur de Richemont, who had been in disgrace at court for two years, appeared with a force of 1000 men and offered his services. At the risk of royal disfavor Joan of Arc accepted this aid.
Tactics Joan of Arc and Duke John II of Alençon controlled a force that included captains Jean d'Orléans, Gilles de Rais, Poton de Xaintrailles, and la Hire. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury led the English defense. Breaking with siege warfare custom, the French army followed the 15 June capture of the bridge at Meung-sur-Loire not with an attack on that town or its castle but with an assault on neighboring Beaugency the next day. John II of Alençon (March 2, 1409, Château dArgentan – 1476,Paris) was the son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany. ...
Comte Jean de Dunois (Jean dOrléans) (November 23, 1402 - November 24, 1468) was the bastard of Louis dOrléans (Duc dOrléans 1372-1407) and Mariette dEnghien. ...
Gilles de Rais Gilles de Rais (also spelled Retz) (autumn of 1404 – October 26, 1440) was a French aristocrat, soldier, and at one time, a national hero. ...
Poton de Xaintrailles (1390-1461) was one of the chief lieutenants of Joan of Arc. ...
La Hire (c. ...
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (1384/90-17 July 1453) was an important English military commander during the Hundred Years War. ...
A siege is a prolonged military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. ...
Unlike Meung-sur-Loire, the main stronghold at Beaugency was inside the city walls. It survives to the modern age and forms an imposing rectangular citadel. During the first day of fighting the English abandoned the town and retreated into the castle. The French bombarded the castle with artillery fire. That evening de Richemont and his force arrived.
Hearing news of an English relief force approaching from Paris under Sir John Fastolf, d'Alençon negotiated the English surrender and granted them safe conduct out of Beaugency. The Battle of Patay followed on open territory on 18 June. Sir John Fastolf (d. ...
The Battle of Patay was a battle in the Hundred Years War between the French and English in 1429 in north-central France. ...
Bibliography - Devries, Kelly. Joan of Arc: A Military Leader (Glaucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999). ISBN 0750918055
- Richey, Stephen W. Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003). ISBN 0275981037
- Allmand, C. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300 – 1450. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). ISBN 0521319234
See also Beaugency: A country located around Germany in the back hills of france ...
Medieval warfare is the warfare of the European Middle Ages. ...
External links - dynamic maps of Joan of Arc's campaigns from Southern Methodist University
- Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
- A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, vol. 3
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