Medieval battle
Battle of Poitiers 1356 – Hundred Years’ War II
unknown artist; The Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356; Kirklees Museums and Galleries; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-battle-of-poitiers-19-september-1356-22080 Animated Maps: Poitiers 1356, the Battle Analysis of the Battle The sources for the battle of Poitiers are difficult, often contradictory and lacking detail. They include chronicles and campaign letters which need to be used in conjunction with cartographic and landscape evidence although with the understanding…
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Battle of Fontenoy June 25, 841
The largest, bloodiest, and most destructive battle of the ninth century began at 6 in the morning on Saturday, June 25, 841, at Fontenoy-en-Puisaye, now a tiny village 22 miles (35 kilometers) south of Auxerre in France. Exactly how many men took part is uncertain. We know that probably between…
The Italian Wars–Fornovo in July 1495
Charles VIII is attacked, Battle of Fornovo, 6 July 1495. The first full scale battle of the wars was fought at Fornovo in July 1495. Charles’ triumph in conquering Naples was short-lived. Those internal elements which had contributed to the overthrow of the Aragonese dynasty soon realised that French rule…
Durazzo 1081
Varangian Guard Norman Infantry Battle of Dyrrhachium (October 18, 1081): 1,300 Norman cavalry under the Duke of Apulia Robert Guiscard, were initially repulsed by the Varangian Guards. The Varangian Guard were in turn routed by a counterattack to their flanks by Norman infantry, fled to the sanctuary of a nearby…
DYSERT O’DEA, 10 MAY 1318
“galloglasses” (gallĂłglaigh, troops of heavy-armored Scots from the Western Isles). The first galloglasses arrived in the mid-thirteenth century, but their numbers were reinforced by political exiles from Scotland after the Bruce wars. They too were billeted on peasant farmers in the Gaelic lordships, an exaction known as “coyne and livery.”…
Battle of Tertry, (687)
FRANKS – Scola Heavy Cavalry and Scara Bodyguards  8th Century Frank Scara Pepin II of Herstal Important battle in the rise of the Carolingian dynasty that helped secure the place of the Carolingians in Austrasia and the Frankish kingdom as a whole. Although a decisive victory for Pippin II…
Battle of Curzola (Korčula), (7 September 1298)
The greatest naval battle fought between Genoa and Venice. At war with Venice since 1294, the Genoese sent an armada of more than 90 galleys into the Adriatic in the summer of 1298 under the command of Lamba Doria. The armada was missing some galleys because of a storm, and…