Historical place archive

Torteval in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Torteval in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1346–1346

Historical events in Torteval

1346

July 1346
Torteval
Philip VI · Hundred Years War

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

Provenance

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