| Siege of Chartres (1360) | |||||||
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| Part of the Hundred Years' War | |||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Black_Monday_hailstorm.jpg) The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III by Joshua Barnes | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Royal_Arms_of_England_(1340-1367).svg){kind=small} England |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Blason_pays_fr_France_ancien.svg){kind=small} France | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
King Edward III&sq=&lang=&file=File:Arms_of_the_Prince_of_Wales_(Ancient).svg){kind=small} Edward, the Black Prince&sq=&lang=&file=File:Sir_Walter_Manny,_1st_Baron_Manny,_KG.png){kind=small} Walter Manny[1]&sq=&lang=&file=File:Arms_of_Edmund_Crouchback,_Earl_of_Leicester_and_Lancaster.svg){kind=small} Duke of Lancaster&sq=&lang=&file=File:Thomas_de_Beauchamp_Arms.svg){kind=small} Earl of Warwick Guy de Beauchamp † |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Blason_Abbaye_Cluny.svg){kind=small} Androuin de La Roche | ||||||
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10,000[1]
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,000 dead | None/Unknown | ||||||
Black Monday took place on Easter Monday (1360) during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1360), when a freak hail storm struck and killed an estimated 1,000[2] English soldiers. The storm was so devastating that it caused more English casualties than any of the previous battles of the war.[3]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
r4was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Eleanor Cracknell, Assistant Archivist, cites: Barnes, J., The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId (Cambridge, 1688), p. 583. in 'A King is Born at Windsor', Windsor Castle Chapel Archives and Chapter Library at stgeorges-windsor.org". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Mortimer, Ian (22 February 2014). Edward III: The Perfect King. RosettaBooks. ISBN 9780795335464.