Qualla: Battle of Cadzand https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Cadzand https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand Battle of Cadzand: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand/ Edward III needed a victory he could afford. His allies in the Low Countries were wavering, his Gascon offensive had stalled, and his treasury was bleeding florins out to German princes who had promised men they hadn't delivered. So in the autumn of 1337 he chose a target that would cost him almost nothing and embarrass the French king enormously: a poor, marshy island of fishermen off the coast of Flanders, named Cadzand. The Hundred Years' War would begin not with a clash of crowned armies but with a deliberate, calculated atrocity against villagers who had no quarrel with anyone.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/k/battle-of-cadzand-wp/u14k-battle-of-cadzand-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Cadzand: Bait on a Wet Island https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand/ Cadzand was nothing in itself. A scatter of fishing huts on saltmarsh, ringed by tidal channels, valuable to no king and to most maps barely worth a name. But it sat just across a narrow channel from Sluys, the wealthy Flemish port whose merchants paid taxes to a French-aligned c...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/k/battle-of-cadzand-wp/u14k-battle-of-cadzand-days-the-records-skip-over.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Cadzand: The Trap Closes https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand/ Sir Guy de Rickenbourg, illegitimate son of Louis, Count of Flanders, commanded the Sluys garrison. He could not let an English raiding force pillage Flemish villages within sight of his town and keep his honor or his job. He crossed the channel. Manny was waiting. The English ha...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/k/battle-of-cadzand-wp/u14k-battle-of-cadzand-the-trap-closes.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Cadzand: A Wound That Spread https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand/ Manny abandoned Cadzand to its survivors within days. Strategically the raid had done its job: Edward's continental allies were impressed, French border regions were intimidated, and the war that would last until 1453 had its opening blow. The unintended consequence was uglier. K...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/k/battle-of-cadzand-wp/u14k-battle-of-cadzand-a-wound-that-spread.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Cadzand: The Sea Will Have Its Joke https://qualla.com/battle-of-cadzand/ Three years after Cadzand, in June 1340, Edward III's fleet sailed back into these same waters and crushed the French navy at the Battle of Sluys, sinking or capturing nearly the entire enemy fleet and effectively giving England command of the Channel for a generation. Today ther...

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