The Black Prince's chevauchée was a large-scale mounted raid carried out by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command o

Black Prince (depiction shown), between 5 October and 2 December 1355 during the Hundred Years' War. John, Count of A
commanded the local French forces, avoided battle, and there was little fighting during the campaign. The Anglo-Gascon fo
6,000 men marched from Bordeaux in English-held Gascony 300 miles (480 km) to Narbonne and back to Gascony, devasta
swathe of French territory and sacking many French towns on the way. During the four months following Christmas, more t
held towns or fortifications were captured. In August 1356 the Black Prince headed north on another chevauchée with 6,000
intercepted by the main French army, 11,000 strong, at Poitiers, where he decisively defeated them and captured King John
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