Battle of La Rochelle (1419)
Appearance
Battle of La Rochelle | |||||||
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Part of the Hundred Years' War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Crown of Castile |
County of Flanders[1] Hanseatic League | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
John II of Castile | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | 40 ships captured[1][2] |
The naval Battle of La Rochelle of 1419 took place between a Castilian and an allied Flemish-Hanseatic fleet.[3][4] The Castillian victory resulted in their naval supremacy in the Bay of Biscay. but it also led to a protracted conflict with Flanders and the Hanseatic League, which ended in 1443 with further commercial concessions to Castile.[5] The battle was notable for the use of guns by the Castilian fleet.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nicolle, David (2014). Forces of the Hanseatic League: 13th–15th Centuries. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1782007807.
- ^ Charles D Stanton (2015). Medieval Maritime Warfare. Pen and Sword. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4738-5643-1.
- ^ N. A. M. Rodger (1998). The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, 660–1649. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-393-31960-6.
- ^ John Roger Loxdale Highfield (1972). Spain in the fifteenth century, 1369–1516: essays and extracts by historians of Spain. Macmillan. p. 71. ISBN 9780333111352.
- ^ MacKay, Angus (1977-12-01). Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000–1500. Macmillan International Higher Education. pp. 129–30. ISBN 978-1-349-15793-8.