The Battle of Sluys (/slɔɪz/ SLOYZ, Dutch: [slœys]), also called the Battle of l'Écluse, was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and...

HMS Sluys was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named in honour of the Battle of Sluys which occurred in 1340 during the Hundred...

51°20′N 3°23′E / 51.333°N 3.383°E / 51.333; 3.383 The Battle of Sluis was a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Spanish squadron commanded...

at the Battle of Sluys in 1340, ensuring that the war would occur on the continent. The English took another decisive advantage at the Battle of Crécy...

Sluis and the former municipality of Aardenburg in 1995. The town received city rights in 1290. In 1340 the Battle of Sluys was fought nearby at sea during...

France). After several victories, he commanded the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys in 1340, during the Hundred Years' War between France and England,...

Channel ports numbers 26 galleys. The Battle of Sluys August: The bishops of Durham and Winchester have a series of fruitless meetings with Philip VI and...

Arundel was a distinguished soldier, in July 1340 he fought at the Battle of Sluys, during which his heavily laden cog grappled with the Spanish fleet...

almost destroyed in what became known as the Battle of Sluys. England dominated the English Channel for the rest of the war, preventing French invasions. At...

opening of the Hundred Years War and was the first battle involving artillery. However the battle of Sluys, fought two years later, saw the destruction of the...

the Battle of Trafalgar as inducing a "pell mell battle" focused on engagements between individual ships where the superior morale and skill of the Royal...

success of the English raids ended the threat of a French invasion of England. The Battle of Sluys was a sea battle fought on 24 June 1340 as one of the opening...

Flanders. The campaign was initiated in the aftermath of the English naval victory at the Battle of Sluys but was far less successful than Edward had hoped...

list of major battles in the Hundred Years' War, a conflict between France and England that lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453. There are 62 of them....

weapon of war and for hunting. English longbows were effective against the French during the Hundred Years' War, particularly in the battles of Sluys (1340)...

dare deliver. In 1340, when the French fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Sluys by the English, Phillippe VI's jester told him the English sailors...

The following is an incomplete list of famous French naval battles from the Middle Ages to modern France....

English naval victory at the Battle of Sluys, and a victory on land at Crécy, leaving Edward free to capture the important port of Calais. A subsequent victory...

Varus. The Battle of Sluys, a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and France. The Battle of Pavia (1525), during the Italian War of 1521-1526...

captured. In June 1340 Edward III smashed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys. In 1346 the English landed in northern Normandy and undertook a devastating...

action. Sluys was later the scene of a highly significant naval battle in 1340. Sumption, Jonathan, The Hundred Years War, Vol 1, Trial by Battle, 1990...

at Sluys in preparation of an invasion of England. The fleet was attacked by Edward III's English fleet and was destroyed in the battle of Sluys. After...

survived for the reign of Edward III of England preceding the Battle of Sluys in 1340. In addition to a military command both at sea and on land, judicial...

The Safeguard of the Sea. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0140297249. Rose, Susan (1997). "Battle of Sluys". In Grove, E. (ed.). Great Battles of the Royal Navy:...

Thiérache campaign (1339) Battle of Sluys (1340) The Siege of Tournai (1340) The Breton war of succession (1340-1364) The Earl of Derby's campaign in Gascony...

Spanish Habsburg service, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Sesimbra Bay, Battle of the Narrow Seas and Battle of Sluys Frederick W. Sturckow, engineer...

Arcadian War 540 BC Battle of Alalia 538–522 BC Polycrates wars 509–396 BC Early Italian campaigns 500–499 BC Persian invasion of Naxos' 499–493 BC Ionian...

Their son John became the 3rd Earl of Salisbury and 4th Baron Monthermer. In 1340 he fought in the Battle of Sluys and died on 24 June from wounds he...

victory in the naval Battle of Sluys in June 1340. The outnumbered English fleet attacked the French and captured or sank 190 of their 213 ships. French...

Chalgrave, Bedfordshire, the son of Roger Loring by his wife Cassandra Perrott. Loring fought at the Battle of Sluys in 1340, following which he was knighted...