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Battle of Meung-sur-Loire

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Virtually all of France north of the Loire had fallen to foreign occupation by the end of 1428. The bridge at Orléans had been destroyed shortly before the siege lifted. The French had lost control of all other river crossings. Three swift and numerically small battles at Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire,
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river in central France, slightly west of Orléans. It controlled a bridge of strategic significance during the latter part of the war. Captured by the English a few years earlier as a staging point for a planned invasion of southern France, the French offensive recaptured the bridge and hampered
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citing 6,000 – 7,000 for the French. A number that large probably counts non-combatants. Bypassing the city and the castle, they staged a frontal assault on the bridge fortifications, conquered it in one day, and installed a garrison. This hampered English movement south of the Loire.
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English defenses at Meung-sur-Loire consisted of three components: the walled town, the fortification at the bridge, and a large walled castle just outside the town. The castle served as headquarters to the English command of
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and Paris. The Loire campaign killed, captured, or disgraced a majority of the top tier of English commanders and decimated the numbers of the highly skilled
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and Beaugency demonstrated renewed French confidence and laid the groundwork for subsequent French offenses on
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The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300 – 1450.
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English movement south of the river during the campaign.
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times
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Index

Hundred Years' War

Joan of Arc
Meung-sur-Loire
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of England
Joan of Arc
John II of Alençon
John, Lord Talbot
Thomas, Lord Scales
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Loire Campaign
Orléans
Rouvray
Jargeau
Meung-sur-Loire
Beaugency
Patay
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Lancastrian phase (1415–1453)
Harfleur
Agincourt
Valmont
1st Caen
Rouen
2nd La Rochelle

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