Naval Battle of Arnemuiden
| date | September 21, 1338 |
|---|---|
| place | near Arnemuiden |
| output | French victory |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 48 ships | 5 ships |
| losses | |
|
1,000 men |
900 men dead or injured, 5 ships (boarded) |
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Chevauchées of the 1340s: Saint-Omer - Auberoche
Edward III. Campaign (1346/47): Caen - Blanchetaque - Crécy - Calais
War of the Breton Succession (1341–1364) : Champtoceaux - Brest - Morlaix - Saint-Pol-de-Léon - La Roche-Derrien - Tournament of Thirty - Mauron - Auray
France's allies : Neville's Cross - Les Espagnols sur Mer - Brignais
Chevauchées of the 1350s: Poitiers
Castilian Civil War & War of the Two Peter (1351–1375): Barcelona - Araviana - Nájera - Montiel
French counter-offensive: La Rochelle - Gravesend
Wars between Portugal and Castile (1369– 1385): Lisbon - Saltés - Lisbon - Aljubarrota
Battle of Northern France: Rouen - Baugé - Meaux - Cravant - La Brossinière - Verneuil
Jeanne d'Arc and the turn of the war: Orléans - Battle of the herring - Jargeau - Meung-sur-Loire - Beaugency - Patay - Compiegne - Gerberoy
The naval battle of Arnemuiden was fought on September 21, 1338 between England and France at the beginning of the Hundred Years War . It was the first sea battle of the Hundred Years War and the first sea battle ever to be fought with cannons .
A large French fleet under the admirals Hugues Quieret and Nicolas Béhuchet attacked the southern coast of England in the naval war on the English Channel from 1338-1340 in order to disrupt trade and rob coastal cities. On September 21, 1338, they sighted a small flotilla of five English nefs that had loaded a large amount of wool for the cloth makers in Flanders . Although nominally under the French crown, the Flemings were allies of the English king Edward III. The battle took place near the port town of Arnemuiden on the island of Walcheren , now part of the Netherlands but then part of the county of Flanders.
Overwhelmed by the numerical superiority and with only part of the crew on board, the English ships fought valiantly, in particular the Christopher with her three cannons and one handgun under the command of John Kingston , the commander of the flotilla. Kingston only surrendered after a full day of fighting and after nearly all of his men were incapacitated. The French took over the valuable cargo and added the five nefs to their fleet. All English seamen captured were executed on the orders of Nicolas Béhuchet. After the Battle of Sluis almost two years later, Béhuchet was hanged by the English for this act.
literature
- Jean-Claude Castex: Dictionnaire des batailles navales franco-anglaises. Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Quebec 2004, ISBN 2-7637-8061-X , online edition .
- Jonathan Sumption: The Hundred Years War. Volume 1: Trial by Battle. Faber and Faber Limited, London 1990, ISBN 0-571-20095-8 , p. 247.
swell
- Collection des chroniques nationales françaises écrites en langue vulgaire du treizième au seizième siècle, avec notes et éclaircissements by JA Buchon, Paris 1826.