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Torteval

France · Warfare / Hundred Years War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Philip VIJuly 1346

Torteval · Warfare / Hundred Years War

Carentan, Saint-Lo and Torteval were all razed, after which Edward turned his army against Caen, the ancestral capital of Normandy

Names involved

Philip VI

Provenance

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