During the War One hundred Year old, English forwardings were called rides . They were long raids devastators on several hundred kilometers and a face of several kilometers.

Known rides

Ride of prince Noir in 1356

The August 4th 1356, the Prince Noir leaves Bordeaux with the head of a anglo-Gascon army, towards the North-East, it devastates the Périgord, the Quercy and the Berry. To Romorantin, this troop moved towards Tours before folding up in the south, with the advertisement of the arrival of the French Army. The continuation leads the September 19th to the battles of Poitiers and with the capture of the king Jean II the Good.

Ride of Edouard III 1359 - 1360

But, in agreement with king Jean and his London entourage who do not want that the possible death of Edouard III on the battle field does not start reprisals in their opposition, Charles opposes the tactics of the deserted Ground to him and carries out a war of Escarmouche S refusing any arranged battle. The doors of Rheims remain closed. However, in accordance with his strategy which consists in forcing the French to fight a great battle in open country, Edouard III did not take along machines of war which would have slowed down it. He moves towards Burgundy. This Chevauchée turns to the fiasco for the English, badgered, famished, deprived with mountings (for lack of fodder). During this time, Norman sailors carry out a raid on the port of Winchelsea (March 1360), starting a panic in England.

Insane of rage, Edouard III goes up towards Paris and lets his army make many exactions: it does not act any more a simple extortion aiming at nourishing its army but systematic destruction of all the resources - the vines are torn off, the shot down cattle and any heart which lives massacred. These exactions involve a sharp resentment against the English. Number of them take place during the Lent and the Holy Week and, when the English army is decimated by a violent one storm of hail on Monday, April 13, many chroniclers sees the hand of God there. Edouard III then decides to negotiate. He signs peace with Brétigny, where he dissolves his army of mercenaries. This one, to balance itself, is delivered to plundering in Burgundy, only “opened” area, because, contrary to Champagne and the Ile de France, their arrival was not envisaged there. These mercenaries form the embryo of the Grandes companies.

Ride of Lancaster 1369

At the beginning of August 1369, Jean of Ghent unloads with Calais and launches a Chevauchée until Harfleur where Philippe Bold the is preparing an unloading Free-Fleming in England. One opposes the strategy of the deserted Ground to him and the ride cannot seize the city. The English army is badgered by the troops with the duke with Burgundy and fearing to be trapped Calais regains. It reinforces the prestige of the crown of France by these victories in spite of the sufferings generated by the tactics of the deserted Ground (it lets the English rides plunder the campaigns whose population took refuge in the fortresses which were rebuilt in all the kingdom) and the return of the plague. Thus the ride of Knowles is driven back of Burgundy. It spends 2 days in front of the doors of Paris, plundering the suburbs under the eyes of Parisian with the shelter behind the walls of the capital. Charles V must show that the taxes taken to lead the war are useful, the more so as the news of the bag of Limoges has just arrived: the spirits warm up. Olivier de Clisson formally disadvises an arranged battle to him. To reassure the country put at fire and blood by the ride of Robert Knolles, Charles V makes constable the very popular Bertrand Of Guesclin which has just returned victorious of Castille, having overcome Pierre Cruel the the ally of the English with Montiel and an army raised thanks to a loan compulsory entrusts to him to badger the English. With Guesclin badgers Robert Knowles and beats it with Pontvallain surprising it whereas it was on the point of crossing the Loir. The discord having gained the English captains, the ride disaggregates arrived to Brittany.

Ride of Lancaster

Not having average logistics and financial to support the war of seat which Charles V imposes to him and who seems to lead to the progressive reconquest of all Aquitaine, Edouard III tries to weaken the French effort in Guyenne by the opening of new faces. Edouard III tries a judicious Ride to ruin France in his lifeblood. June 12th, 1373, it institutes his son Jean of Lancaster special lieutenant and general captain in the kingdom of France. It leads through France a ride of the more devastators. But this one remains under control: Philippe Bold the holds the bridges and the castle on its right wing, Dugesclin follows it and prevents any folds towards Calais. It crosses Picardy and Vermandois but not being able to go towards the west it moves towards Rheims, then Troyes where it finds closed doors. Beaten by Clisson with Sens, the duke of Lancaster cannot join Brittany, it thus tries to rejoin Guyenne while crossing the Limousin.

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