The battle was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers, and Tours. The battle of tours, also known as the battle of Poitiers, and the Battle of the Palace of the Martyrs. Henry’s men were already weakened by sickness, and hunger. The english used stakes to protect their archers from cavalry which was an innovation at the time. Henry lost a puny 112 men whereas D’Albret lost up to 10,000 men. The English army was mainly made of English and Welsh longbowmen. Henry fought in the battle and joined in with hand to hand combat. Henry V defeated Charles D’Albret with a numerically inferior force. This battle resulted in an English victory which crippled France. Even though the Japanese fleet still had many of it’s ships, they could no longer threaten the Koreans. This victory was so inspiring that many ships and sailors flocked to join Admiral Yi’s fleet, and they even gained support from the Chinese. By the time the battle had ended 30 Japanese ships were destroyed, half their army was dead, and Admiral Yi had achieved a monumental victory. Japanese sailors began to abandon ship, but the tides were too strong for them to get back to shore. The dense Japanese formation made it easy for the Koreans to fire upon them. Yi saw this and took advantage of the situation, he pressed forward ramming 30 Japanese war ships. The tide of the water shifted and the Japanese ships began to collide with each other. The other ships watching were inspired by Yi’s bravery and joined in the fight. At the beginning of the battle only Yi’s ship was firing, the rest were too afraid, and Yi’s subordinates all wanted to run away from such an immense force. None of Yi Sun-sins ships were destroyed and he lost only 11 men. Half of Hideyoshi’s forces died and 30 ships were destroyed. It was a disastrous defeat for the Japanese fleet, led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated the japanese navy of up to 330 ships with an army of only 13 ships. The Battle of Myeongnyang is one of the greatest battles in Korean history. Only 3000 of the 5000 Taira soldiers were able to escape. Famous warriors such as the warrior monk Benkei fought alongside Minamoto Yoshitsune. The attack caused mass confusion and panic amongst the Taira. Yoshitsune led a small force of 100 horsemen, and attacked the Taira at a mountain ridge to the north. Noriyori’s force met the Taira in battle at Ikuta Shrine, in the woods to the east. Yoshitsune attacked by splitting his forces up and attacking in two directions. Although defensible it was difficult to manoeuvre. They were in a narrow strip of shore, between mountains to the north, and the southern sea. The Taira clan stayed at a defensive position ready to defend against the coming attack. The English retreated apart from a small force of soldiers from the Royal Household who gathered around Harold’s body and fought to their deaths. Late in the battle Harold mysteriously died, and the English forces collapsed.
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The Normans saw the success of this and decided to implement a series of feigned retreats to trick the English into breaking their shield wall and creating an opening. The English charged at the retreating English, but William had managed to launch a counter-attack and overwhelmed some of the English forces. William rode through his forces, rallying his men and shouting that he was alive. As the Normans ran away confused and fearful, a rumour spread the William had been killed, which damaged morale. William attempted to advance uphill but was forced back by a barrage of spears, stones, and axes. The arrows simply bounce off of the English shield wall. The Norman archers fired uphill at the English.
The battle was fought on 1066 between William of Normandy who had 7,000 soldiers, and Harold of England who had 10,000. (CC BY-SA 3.0) / Ordnance Survey OpenData
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