A Great and Glorious Adventure (44 page)
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Authors: Gordon Corrigan
Gordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962. He was awarded the MBE (military) in 1996 and retired from the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1998.
He is a member of the British Commission for Military History, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. He is the author of a number of books of
military history including
Sepoys in the Trenches; Mud, Blood and Poppycock; Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
; and
The Second World War.
The staffs of the National Portrait Gallery, the British Library, the National Archives at Kew and the Prince Consort’s Library at Aldershot have all been unfailingly
helpful to my often arcane requests for books and documents, most long out of print. The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral were kind enough to permit me access to King Henry IV’s tomb
at a time when, apart from myself, that great monument to a glorious past (and with luck a reasonably good future too) was entirely empty. Even the most cynical could not have failed to feel a deep
sense of spirituality. Mathew Bennett was kind enough to cast the critical eye of a medieval and military expert over the manuscript. At Atlantic books Angus Mackinnon, my indefatigable editor, Ben
Dupré my copy editor and James Nightingale, Caroline Knight, Margaret Stead, Lauren Finger, Mark Handsley and Martin Lubikowski have all played a huge part in the piloting of the book from
keyboard to bookshop, and I thank them for all that they have done.
Page numbers in
bold
refer to illustrations
Acre, siege of
16
Agenais, the
52
Agincourt.
see
Azincourt
Airaines
97
ale
80
Alençon, duke of
271
Alexander III, King of Scots
23
alternate history
285–6
Amiens, Treaty of
1
Amiens cathedral
42
Angers
261
Anglo-French relations
1–2
,
284–5
Anjou
265
Anjou, duke of
181–2
Anjou, John, duke of
163
Anne of Bohemia
190
Antwerp
50
Aquitaine
Henry II’s acquisition of
15–16
Henry III and
20
Philip VI’s confiscation of
22
,
49
Crécy campaign
96
French invasion, 1356
140
Edward, the Black Prince confirmed as ruler of
168
Charles V’s confiscation of
176–7
John of Gaunt as ruler of
178
English loss of
277–9
Henry VIII’s expedition
281–2
Aragon
170
archers
armour
70
Crécy Campaign
82
firepower
58
longbow
67–9
at Mauron
130–1
physical development
68
supremacy
67
tactics
78
Area of Operations: 1416–52
253
,
263
,
277
Armagnac
133–4
armatti
71
armies
composition
64–6
feudal
61–3
professionalization
63–4
,
275
,
282–3
Arques
234
Arras
273
Arthur, duke of Brittany
18–19
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
77
Arundel, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury
207
,
216
,
218
Arundel, Thomas Fitzalan, earl of
210
,
217
Aston, Sir Richard
205–6
Auberoche, siege of
117
Aubigny, sack of
140–1
Audley, Sir James
140–1
,
144–5
,
154
Auray, Battle of
166
Avranches
256
Azincourt, Battle of
advance to
238–40
night before
240–1
French confidence
241
Henry’s address to troops
242–3
English advance to second position
243
,
245
dispositions
244
crossbowmen
245
French deployment
245
French plan
245–6
French attack
246–8
baggage-train attacked
248
casualties
248–9
aftermath
251–2
Azincourt Campaign
231
preparations
221–5
English forces assemble
223–4
landing site
225
Channel crossing
225–6
English advance
232–9
English forces
233
rations
233
French forces assemble
234
Somme crossing
234–7
pyx theft
236–7
French forces
237
French demand for battle
237–8
English arrive at Calais
249
Badby, John
216
Balliol, John
23–4
Barbazon, Arnaud de
260
Barber, Richard
178
Barons Revolt, the
19
Basque country, the
176
battering rams
116
Battle of the Herrings
269
Battle of the Spurs
282
battle paintings
4–5
battlefield archaeology
99
Baudricourt, Robert de
267
,
267–8
Baugé, Battle of
261–2
Bayeux, bishop of
90
Beaufort, Bishop
217
Beaugency
262
Beaumanoir, Jean de
130
Beauvais
96
Bécherel
167
Becket, Thomas
15
Bedford, John, duke of
252
,
254
,
264–6
,
269
,
273
,
273–4
beer
80
belfries
115–16
Berkeley, Sir Thomas
44
Bilbao
176
biological warfare
117
Black Rood, the
40
Blanche of Hungary
30–1
Blangy
238
Blount, Sir Walter
202
Bohun, Mary de
196
Bolougne
282
Bordeaux
133
,
156–7
,
182
,
277
,
277–9
Boroughbridge, Battle of
29
,
33
,
65–6
Bosworth, Battle of
281
Boucicault, Jean
237
Bourbon, duke of
237
Boutellier, Guy Le
256–7
Boves
235
Bradmore, John
203–4
Bramham Moor, Battle of
208
bread
80
Breteuil, siege of
116
Brétigny, Treaty of
163
,
165
,
176
,
222
strategic importance
76
civil war
77–9
succession crisis
77–9
Dagworth’s campaign
121
Bentley’s campaigns
130–1
Lancaster’s campaign
156
end of war
166–7
French overrun
179
campaign, 1379
182–3
Charles V’s confiscation attempt
182–5
campaign, 1380
184–5
Buckingham, duke of
184–5
Buironfosse
52
Burghers of Calais, The
(Rodin)
124
Burghersh, Sir Bartholomew
144–5
Burgundy, alliance with Henry V
259
Burgundy, Philip, duke of
197
,
209–11
Burne, Colonel Alfred
7
Burns, Robbie
28
Cade, Jack
278
Cadzand
50
Caen
assault on
89–92
siege of
255–6
French recapture
277
Calais
population
114
strategic importance
114–15
defences
115
investment of
117
supplies
117–18
eviction of dispossessed
120
French relief attempt
122–3
second eviction
123
surrender
123–5
plunder
125
attempt to recapture
129
Edward III’s 1358 campaign
162
French attack, 1377
181
Henry V arrives at, 1415
249
Calveley, Sir Hugh
73
,
166
,
169
,
172
,
181
,
183–4
Cambridge, Richard, earl of
238
Camoys, Thomas, Baron
241–2
campaigning, financing
22–3
Cappoci, Cardinal
158–9
Carentan
88
Castillon, Battle of
278–9
Castle Rising
44
casualties
Sluys
57–8
Dupplin Moor
66
Halidon Hill
66–7
Morlaix
79
Caen
92
Crécy
110
Mauron
131
Poitiers
154–5
Najera
175
Shrewsbury
204–5
Azincourt
248–9
Verneuil
266
causes
2
Cawne, Sir Thomas
60
Challons, bishop of
145–6
Chambry, Phillip de (Gris Mouton ‘Grey Sheep’)
141
Champtoceaux
78
Chandos, Sir John
140–1
,
144–5
,
166
,
173
,
177
Charles I, King
284
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
109
Charles IV, King of France
31
,
32
,
35
,
40–1
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
282
Charles V, the Wise, King of France
suspends the Estates General
157–8
and lawlessness after Poitiers campaign
160
,
162
refuses to agree peace terms
162
accession to throne
168
problems facing
168–70
Spanish campaign, 1367
170
confiscation of Aquitaine
176–7
guerrilla campaign
177–9
truce, 1375
180–1
campaign, 1377
181–2
confiscation of Navarrese lands in Normandy
182
Breton campaign
182–5
death
184