Timeline

1302  Battle of Courtrai. Flemish infantry defeat the French army

1307  Battle of Loudoun Hill. Bruce’s first significant victory over the English

1314  Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish victory against the English under Edward II

1315  Battle of Morgarten. Swiss success over Leopold of Austria

1317  Weardale campaign. Edward III’s first campaign against the Scots, in the north of England

1328  Battle of Cassel. French victory over Flemish forces

1332  Battle of Dupplin Moor. English success against a larger Scottish army

1333  Battle of Halidon Hill. Victory for Edward III over the Scots

1339  French and English armies fail to engage at Buirenfosse

1340  Battle of Parabiago, near Milan. The Company of St George defeated by Milan

1340  Battle of Sluys. English naval victory in the Low Countries over the French fleet

1340  Failure of the English and their allies at the siege of Tournai

1344  Fall of Algeciras in Spain to crusading forces

1346  Battle of Crécy. English victory against the French

1346  Battle of Neville’s Cross. King David II of Scots captured by the English

1352  Battle of Mauron. English victory against the French

1356  Battle of Poitiers. English victory which sees the capture of the French king John II

1360  Treaty of Brétigny between France and England

1367  Battle of Nájera in Spain between Peter of Castile, supported by the Black Prince, and forces backing Henry of Trastamara

1382  Battle of Roosebeke. French victory over the Flemings

1385  Battle of Aljubarrota. Victory for Portuguese, with English support, against a Franco-Castilian army

1387  Battle of Castagnaro. Paduan forces under John Hawkwood defeat Verona

1396  Battle of Nicopolis. Crusader forces defeated in the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks

1410  Battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald). Polish victory over the Teutonic Knights

1415  Battle of Agincourt. English victory over France