Battle of Sluys

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Article abstract: Type of action: Naval battle in the Hundred Years’ War. Result: English victory.

In the spring of 1340, while King Edward III of England was assembling an army to invade France, King Philip VI of France sent more than 200 ships to Sluys (Sluis) on the Zwin Estuary to carry a French army for the invasion and conquest of England. Edward swiftly collected about 160 ships to carry his own army, and on June 23, this force anchored off the Blankenburghe coastal dike. A scouting party reported that most of the French ships (plus some Spanish and...

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