006. Southampton - Historical, French Raid - WDS Age of Longbow Volume I
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Date: 5 October 1338 - Size: Small - Location: Southampton, England
Scenario Briefing: Historical - The French Raid on Southampton - Before the decisive English naval victory at Sluys in 1340, the French were able to conduct a series of successful raids on English shipping, islands and towns, including the Channel Islands, Portsmouth and Southampton. While Froissart claims the raid took place the previous morning when the townsfolk were at Sunday Mass, the earliest sources - English royal documents a few months after the raid, and the accounts found in the chronicles of Murimuth and Baker - fix the date as Monday 5th October between 3pm and 4pm.
The French admiral's account of the raid indicates that the initial French landing party met with stiff resistance and required the assistance of the Genoese to break into the town. A contemporary French chronicler states that "furent mout grant foison de Genevoiz, qui estoient ès gallies comme soudoiers du roy de France, tuez et ochiz des Angloiz" and the heavy Genoese losses are also mentioned by the English poet Laurence Minot. However, despite the resistance of the town militia and citizens, the Genoese managed to gain the upper hand and secure much of the town by dusk, although it appears that they made no attempt to capture Southampton castle. The following morning the raiders promptly sailed away before an English relief force could arrive.
While some modern historians believe that the French raiders brought a pot de fer - an early artillery gun - with them to break down the town gates based on a letter of Guillaume de Moulin dated 2nd July 1338 which mentions such a gun, there is no actual mention of a gun in any surviving 14th century account of the raid. So, while the gun certainly existed and theoretically might have been taken and used, the very lack of any mention of such a novelty weapon makes it rather unlikely.
Note: Due to the small scale of the raid and in order to represent the street plan of Southampton in greater detail. The map scale is 25 meters per hex rather than the standard 100 meters.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Note: Side A = French and Genoese mercenaries, Side B = English
Best played Head-To-Head or as the French / Genoese side against the English A/I.
Scenario Briefing: Historical - The French Raid on Southampton - Before the decisive English naval victory at Sluys in 1340, the French were able to conduct a series of successful raids on English shipping, islands and towns, including the Channel Islands, Portsmouth and Southampton. While Froissart claims the raid took place the previous morning when the townsfolk were at Sunday Mass, the earliest sources - English royal documents a few months after the raid, and the accounts found in the chronicles of Murimuth and Baker - fix the date as Monday 5th October between 3pm and 4pm.
The French admiral's account of the raid indicates that the initial French landing party met with stiff resistance and required the assistance of the Genoese to break into the town. A contemporary French chronicler states that "furent mout grant foison de Genevoiz, qui estoient ès gallies comme soudoiers du roy de France, tuez et ochiz des Angloiz" and the heavy Genoese losses are also mentioned by the English poet Laurence Minot. However, despite the resistance of the town militia and citizens, the Genoese managed to gain the upper hand and secure much of the town by dusk, although it appears that they made no attempt to capture Southampton castle. The following morning the raiders promptly sailed away before an English relief force could arrive.
While some modern historians believe that the French raiders brought a pot de fer - an early artillery gun - with them to break down the town gates based on a letter of Guillaume de Moulin dated 2nd July 1338 which mentions such a gun, there is no actual mention of a gun in any surviving 14th century account of the raid. So, while the gun certainly existed and theoretically might have been taken and used, the very lack of any mention of such a novelty weapon makes it rather unlikely.
Note: Due to the small scale of the raid and in order to represent the street plan of Southampton in greater detail. The map scale is 25 meters per hex rather than the standard 100 meters.
Recommended Rules: [Default]
Note: Side A = French and Genoese mercenaries, Side B = English
Best played Head-To-Head or as the French / Genoese side against the English A/I.
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