Qualla: Battle of Saint-Omer https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/1/8/battle-of-saint-omer-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Saint-Omer https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer Battle of Saint-Omer: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Edward III had won at sea. Five weeks before this battle, his fleet had annihilated the French navy at Sluys - one of the largest naval engagements of the Middle Ages, with thousands of French sailors and soldiers cut down or drowned. Now he meant to win on land. He had a Flemish alliance, an army of longbowmen, and a controversial French exile in Robert III of Artois leading the southern wing. He had asked Jacob van Artevelde of Ghent for 150,000 Flemish troops. He got, on arrival, a fraction of that. The southern wing limped toward Saint-Omer expecting a friendly town to open its gates. Instead it found a hard, disciplined French garrison under Eudes IV of Burgundy that had been busy razing the suburbs for three weeks. On the afternoon of 26 July 1340, the French were going to do something nobody expected: attack first.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/1/8/battle-of-saint-omer-wp/u118-battle-of-saint-omer-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Saint-Omer: The Plan That Was Never Going to Work https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Robert III of Artois had a thin grip on his army. The Flemish levies were jittery, unpaid, and uneasy about fighting French knights - and Robert, exiled from Artois for years, believed there were Flemish sympathisers inside Saint-Omer who would let him in. There were not. On 25 J...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/1/8/battle-of-saint-omer-wp/u118-battle-of-saint-omer-the-plan-that-was-never-going-to-work.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Saint-Omer: A Battle That Made No Sense https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The garrison commanders, Eudes of Burgundy and his ally the Count of Armagnac, had been ordered to wait for Philip VI. They knew their job: sit inside the walls, survive a few days, and let the royal army crush the Anglo-Flemish from the rear. But the French knights inside Saint-...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/1/8/battle-of-saint-omer-wp/u118-battle-of-saint-omer-a-battle-that-made-no-sense.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Saint-Omer: Slaughter at the Bend of the Aa https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The men of Ypres broke first. They had advanced furthest and the French knights, regrouped, rolled over them. They fled back through the open camp where the rearguard was still waiting, spreading panic. The French cavalry came in behind them, and trapped them in a bend of the riv...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/1/8/battle-of-saint-omer-wp/u118-battle-of-saint-omer-slaughter-at-the-bend-of-the-aa.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Saint-Omer: Counting in the Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-saint-omer/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. When the sun came up, the scale of the disaster became clear. Eight thousand Flemish soldiers - farmers from Ypres, weavers from Veurne, townsmen from Bergues - lay dead, most of them at the river bend. Robert's English longbowmen in the first line had mostly survived; they would...

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