Black Prince’s chevauchée of 1355
The Black Prince’s chevauchée was a large-scale mounted raid carried out by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward, the Black Prince, between 5 October and 2 December 1355. The force of 4,000–6,000 men marched from Bordeaux in English-held Gascony 300 miles to Narbonne and back. More than 50 French-held towns or fortifications were captured during the following four...