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Military campaign of 1339 during the Hundred Years' War

Thiérache campaign
Chevauchée of Edward III of 1339

Date	20 September – 24 October 1339
Location	Northern France
Result	English withdrawal

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

King Edward III

King Philip VI

v t e Hundred Years' War Edwardian phase (1337–1360)
1337–1340 Cadzand Arnemuiden English Channel Thiérache campaign Cambrai Scheldt campaigns Sluys Tournaisis campaign Saint-Omer Tournai 1345–1347 Gascony Bergerac Auberoche Aiguillon Crécy campaign Caen Blanchetaque Crécy Calais (1346–1347) Lancaster's chevauchée (1346) 1349–1352 Lunalonge Calais (1350) Winchelsea Saint-Jean-d'Angély Saintes Ardres Guînes 1355–1356 Black Prince's chevauchée (1355) Edward III's chevauchée (1355) Normandy chevauchée (1356) Breteuil Loire campaign (1356) Black Prince's chevauchée (1356) Poitiers 1358–1360 Jacquerie Reims campaign Chartres Treaties and truces Espléchin Malestroit Calais Guînes First London Second London Brétigny

Hundred Years' War
Edwardian phase
(1337–1360)

1337–1340

1345–1347

1349–1352

1355–1356

1358–1360

Treaties and truces

v t e Hundred Years' War
Edwardian phase Second War of Scottish Independence War of the Breton Succession Castilian Civil War War of the Two Peters Caroline phase Despenser's Crusade 1383–1385 Crisis Glyndŵr rebellion Armagnac–Burgundian conflict Lancastrian phase

The Thiérache campaign, also known as the chevauchée of Edward III of 1339 was the march from Valenciennes, Hainault across Cambrésis, Picardy and Thiérache in northern France by an English army with Flemish, Hainault and Holy Roman Empire allies. It began on 20 September 1339, resulting in the siege of Cambrai and ended with the withdrawal of the English forces on 24 October, 1339, into Brabant. The English army was led by King Edward III, and the French by King Philip VI. It was a campaign during the Hundred Years' War.

Aftermath

Duke John of Normandy led a French army through Hainault in revenge for their support of Edward III. The French progress was halted by the garrison of Le Quesnoy by the use of cannon. A Flemish army led by Jacques van Artevelde, with Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk and William Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, was ambushed on the way to Valenciennes; the Earls of Suffolk and Salisbury were captured and taken prisoner to Paris. Philip VI joined the French army and marched to meet the Flemish army. News arrived that the French fleet had been annihilated during the naval encounter at Sluys, with the French army then retreating to Arras.

Citations

^ Burne 1990, p. 52.

References

Burne, Alfred Higgins (1990) . The Crécy War:a military history of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the peace of Bretigny, 1360. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-081-2. OCLC 22242635.
Wagner, John A. (2006). "Thiérache Campaign (1339)". Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Greenwood. pp. 296–297. ISBN 978-0313327360.

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