Battle of La Rochelle (1419)

Battle of La Rochelle

Date	December 30, 1419
Location	Coast and Port of La Rochelle Coordinates: 47°16′00″N 1°23′00″W / 47.2667°N 1.38333°W / 47.2667; -1.38333
Result	Castilian victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of England
Hanseatic League

Crown of Castile

Hundred Years' War

Edwardian phase War of the Breton Succession War of the Two Peters Castilian Civil War Caroline phase Despenser's Crusade 1383–85 Crisis Lancastrian phase Armagnac–Burgundian conflict

Hundred Years' War Lancastrian phase (1415–53)

Harfleur Agincourt Valmont Rouen 2nd La Rochelle Baugé Meaux Cravant La Brossinière Verneuil St. James Orléans Herrings Loire Jargeau Meung-sur-Loire Beaugency Patay Reims Paris La Charité Compiègne Gerberoy Formigny Castillon

The naval Battle of La Rochelle 1419 was a battle between a Castilian and an allied English-Hanseatic fleet.^[1]^[2]^[3] The battle was notable for the use of guns by the Castilian fleet.

References

↑ 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 (10 February 1972). Spain in the fifteenth century, 1369-1516: essays and extracts by historians of Spain. Macmillan. p. 71.
↑ Charles D Stanton (30 June 2015). Medieval Maritime Warfare. Pen and Sword. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-4738-5643-1.

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