I want to know about the Battle of Guinegate.
The Battle of Guinegate is called a Battle of the Spurs. There are very few pages about the Battle of Guinegate... :(
In many pages, the process of the fight is not written only with the origin of the name... :( :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_of_the_Italian_Wars
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The Battle of Guinegate or Battle of the Spurs took place on August 16, 1513. As part of the Holy League under the on-going Italian Wars, English and Imperial troops under Henry VIII and Maximilian I surprised and routed a body of French cavalry under Jacques de La Palice.
The English army was provided by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and combined several different types of martial forces, and included cavalry, artillery, infantry and longbows using hardened steel arrows designed to penetrate armour more effectively. The French forces were mostly companies of gendarmes and pikemen, with some other mixed forces as well. Called the "Battle of the Spurs" because of the haste of the French horse to leave the battlefield, it took place at Guinegate (now Enguinegatte, near St Omer in the Pas de Calais, France). A French cavalry force, which had come to succour the besieged town of Therouanne, suddenly found itself opposite the Anglo-Imperial army, the size and position of which it had misjudged. Repelled by the latter’s artillery, the French turned and fled, with English and Burgundian cavalry in hot pursuit. The town of Therouanne capitulated soon after the battle, and later in the campaign of 1513, Henry VIII of England captured and garrisoned Tournai. |
The armor of gendarme is very thick.
Did these arrows penetrate a armor of gendarme? (Or did they aim horses?) :?:
It is famous that many gendarmes were killed at Battle of Pavia. (They were surrounded and were not able to charge.)
I cann't find a detailed page of "Battle of Guinegate".
I want to know the details of the battle.
Will you teach it? :?:
thanks :)