Bourchier, Robert, 1st Baron Bo ( 1337 ), in the French Wars The greatest extent of Napoleon I's First Empire (1812). Walter IV, Seigneur d'Enghein ( 19 Sep 1356 ) Please select which sections you would like to print: Corrections? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Vaughan, Roger ( 25 Oct 1415 )     Tempest, Piers, presumably served in that campaign     Count equals 5 individuals.     Vere, John, 7th Earl of Oxford ( 1356 ) After the Allies entered Paris in March 1814, Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba.     Stapleton, Brian ( 1415 )     Count equals 1 individual.     Courtenay, Edward, Lord Courten ( 1415 )     Brabazon, John, as a commander troops     Kingscote, John ( 25 Oct 1415 ) In 2018, the French government was searching for the wrecks of the sunken warships Cordelière and Regent. With France out of the equation, Britain's war for the next four years was fought in the air, at sea, and in the Mediterranean - but not on the Western Front. It is possibly the first battle between ships using cannon through ports, although this played a minor role in the fighting. The number of combatants is heavily contested in historical accounts.     Count equals 1 individual.     Hungerford, Walter, 1st Lord Hu ( 1415 ), the spoils arising from which he allegedly used to restore Farleigh Castle, though he may also have raised the money from ransoming the eight distinguished Frenchmen he took prisoner after the Agincourt Campaign     Vere, Richard, 11th Earl of Oxf ( 1415 )     Hastings, Hugh ( 1340 ) [3] The little Nef-de-Dieppe manoeuvered skillfully to bombard these new assailants.     Percy, Henry, 3rd Lord Percy ( Jun 1340 ) [3] Under English fire, Marie la Cordelière— at 1,000 tons,[3] one of the largest of her time[4]—sailed towards the Regent,[3] with 600 Tons [3] the largest and most powerful ship in the English navy. [3] The Cordelière's cannons dismasted both Sovereign and Mary James which became ungovernable and drifted in the Iroise Sea.     Shirley, Ralph ( 1415 ), a commander under King Henry V     Stafford, Hugh, 2nd Earl of Sta ( 1359 ), in Aquitaine     Count equals 9 individuals. [3] By accident, about 300 guests, including some women, were visiting the Breton flagship Marie la Cordelière when it was attacked.     Ros, John, 7th Lord de Ros of H ( 1415 ) [2], Well informed about the Franco-Breton manoeuvres, the English surprised them at anchor. =killed in action or mortally wounded during this battle/war, A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.     Count equals 3 individuals. The combination of the French and Breton fleets was thus the first significant military action in which the two countries fought together, twenty four years after the Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (1488), the last battle between them.     Lowther, Hugh ( 1415 )     Barttelot, John, where he took the castle of Fontenay in France.     Cornwall, John, 1st and last Ba ( 1415 ), and was left in command of the English forces in France on King Henry V's subsequent return to England Napoleonic Wars, series of wars between Napoleonic France and shifting alliances of other European powers that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe.     Burghersh, Bartholomew, 2nd Lor ( 19 Sep 1356 )     Holand, Robert, 2nd Lord Holand Battle of Verdun, World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. Legh, Piers ( 24 Oct 1415 ) French poets Humbert de Montmoret and Germain de Brie both wrote poems about it. Bonaparte had hoped that Moreau would mass the Army of the Rhine in Switzerland and cross the river at Schaffhausen to turn the Austrian left in strength and obtain a decisive victory before dispatching some of his army to join the force descending on the rear of the Austrians in Italy. He is supposed to have said «Nous allons fêter saint Laurent qui périt par le feu!».     Beauchamp, John, 1st Lord Beauc ( 1340 ) The wars lasted 15 years, and for a brief time Napoleon was the master of Europe. Until he had engaged this force in the south, Bonaparte would be able, should the need arise, to take it to Moreau’s assistance. During June and July, Howard effectively controlled the English Channel and is said to have captured more than 60 vessels. Only 20 wounded Breton sailors out of 1,250 were saved from the Cordelière and 60 out of 460 English from the Regent. It thus became symbolic within Brittany of the unity between Brittany and France.     Neville, John, 2nd Lord Neville ( 1346-1347 ) The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont.It is possibly the first battle between ships using cannon through ports, although this played a minor role in the fighting.     Count equals 11 individuals. Nevertheless, Bonaparte was busy with the creation of an army of reserve which was to be concentrated around Dijon and was destined to act under his command in Italy. Seton, William, of Seton ( 17 Aug 1424 ) [3] The Cordelière remained alone among the English fleet, with the exception of the small Nef-de-Dieppe which harassed the English ships. Monthermer, Thomas, 2nd Baron M ( 1340 ) Updates?     Count equals 1 individual. Crécy campaign, in the Hundred Years War Battle of Verneuil     Beresford, Thomas ( 25 Oct 1415 ) [3], Hervé de Portzmoguer, also known as "Primauguet", the Breton captain of the Cordelière ordered the assault of the Regent. Dafydd 'Gam' ( 25 Oct 1415 )     Neville, Hugh (III) ( 1346-1347 )     Macdonald, Iain, Lord of the Is ( 1356 ), where he was captured while fighting with the French against the English [10] The death of de Portzmoguer, on the day of Saint Lawrence (10 August), was later portrayed as a deliberate act of self-sacrificing heroism.     Stewart, John, 3rd Earl of Buch ( 17 Aug 1424 )     Hungerford, Robert, 2nd Lord Hu Moreau, however, preferred to cross the Rhine at intervals over a distance of 60 miles (approximately 100 km) and to encounter the Austrians before concentrating his own forces.     Hastings, Laurence, 1st Earl of ( 1340 ), against the French navy It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.     Stonor, Thomas ( 1419-1420 ), serving in France Napoleonic Wars, series of wars between Napoleonic France and other European powers that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe.     Fiennes, James, 1st Lord Saye a, in France, where he granted lordship of Court-le-Comte by King Henry V     Bagot, John ( 1415 ) Brederode en Gennep, Johan I ( 25 Oct 1415 ) Stewart, John, 1st Seigneur d'A ( 12 Feb 1429 )     Talbot, John, 1st Earl of Shrew ( 1424 )     Howard, John, 1st Duke of Norfo ( 1452-1453 ) Berkeley, Maurice, 4th Lord Ber ( 19 Sep 1356 ), where he distinguished himself, but was severely wounded and taken prisoner Siege of Harfleur     Stafford, Hugh, 2nd Earl of Sta ( 1367 ), in Spain     Beauchamp, Richard, 13th Earl o ( 1416 )     Seymour, William ( c 1359 ), where he attended The Black Prince in Gascony     FitzWalter, John, 3rd Lord Fitz ( 1346 ) "[6], Over the next two days, with the French fleet in Brest, the English fleet captured or destroyed thirty-two French vessels and recovered the valuable French anchors[citation needed] before returning to England.     Waldegrave, Richard, where he landed 10,000 men in Brittany, and captured Conquet and the Ile de Rhé     Willoughby, John, 3rd Lord Will ( 19 Sep 1356 ) Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. At the beginning of June, he escorted to Brittany an army which Henry sent to France under the command of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, with the hope of recovering Guyenne. Douglas, Archibald, 4th Earl of ( 17 Aug 1424 ), fighting against the Duke of Bedford Along with the French Revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic Wars constitute a 23-year period of recurrent conflict that ended with the Battle of Waterloo.     Despenser, Edward, 1st Lord le ( 1356 )     Dunbar, Patrick ( 1356 ), alongside the French at their defeat by the English under the Black Prince     Count equals 1 individuals.Total count equals 121 individuals. The Order of Battle for the Battle of France details the hierarchy of the major combatant forces in the Battle of France in May 1940. The pressures of the war likely prompted Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States.     Pilkington, John ( 1415 )     Brewes, John ( 1347 )     Warre, Roger, 3rd Lord la Warre ( 1356 )     Fitzalan, Thomas, 5th/12th Earl ( 1415 ) Along with the French Revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic Wars constitute a 23-year period of recurrent conflict that concluded only with the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon’s second abdication on June 22, 1815. [3], The two main ships (Marie la Cordelière and Petite Louise) faced the enemy to cover the retreat of the rest of the fleet to the port of Brest. [7] As a result of the engagement Sir Edward Howard was made Lord High Admiral by Henry VIII.[8].     Tempest, Richard ( 1415 )     Count equals 1 individual. Instead of reinforcing Austrian strength in northern Italy, where there was most hope of success, the British government spent its efforts in limited and isolated enterprises, among them an expedition of 6,000 men to capture Belle-Île off the Brittany coast and another of 5,000 to join the 6,000 already on the Balearic Island of Minorca. Hundred Years War Robessart, Lewis ( 1417 ) Walter VI, Comte de Brienne e ( 19 Sep 1356 ), as Constable of France, where the French were defeated by the English [9] The latter work presented such an exaggeratedly heroic version of the death of Hervé de Portzmoguer, that it occasioned a satirical response from Thomas More, leading to a literary battle between More and de Brie. The new French front along the Somme and the Aisne was dubbed the Weygand Line.     Douglas, Archibald, 3rd Earl of ( 19 Sep 1356 ) A lively and informative new podcast for kids that the whole family will enjoy! Despite Russia’s subsequent abandonment of the common cause and France’s recovery of control over Holland and Switzerland, the British government paid no serious attention to Bonaparte’s proposals for peace in December 1799. When in June these two forces were diverted to cooperate with the Austrians they arrived off the Italian coast too late to be of use.     Clinton, John, 3rd Lord Clinton ( 1356 )     Lewknor, Thomas ( 1415 ) The flames spread to the Regent and both ships sank. The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts between Napoleon's France and a shifting web of alliances. Crécy campaign, in the Hundred Years War Neville, Hugh (III) ( 1346-1347 ) Neville, John, 2nd Lord Neville ( 1346-1347 ) Count equals 2 individuals. When war with France broke out in April 1512, England's Edward Howard was appointed admiral of a fleet sent by King Henry VIII to control the sea between Brest and the Thames estuary. [3] The deck of the Regent was covered by blood when, suddenly, the Cordelière exploded.