The Fall of English France 1449-53 by David Nicolle

Author:David Nicolle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Fall of English France 1449–53
ISBN: 9781780960357
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

A number of late-medieval hand-held guns still survive, though without their wooden stocks; this 15th-century example was almost certainly made in Flanders. (Castle Museum, Ghent; author’s photograph)

THE BATTLE OF CASTILLON

The town of Castillon was strongly fortified, though in an old-fashioned manner. Beyond its suburbs stood the substantial Benedictine Priory of Saint-Florent on slightly higher ground. A detailed map of the area made in 1762–63 shows the priory in a clearing surrounded on three sides by woods, which was almost certainly also the case in 1453. The small chapel of Notre-Dame de Colles on the northern side of the Rauzan ford also formed a separate part of this priory.

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