Bitka pri Formigny [1450]

Fight pri Formigny (1450)

Prímerie podpísané in the year 1444 in Tours provided Francúzom valuable time on reorganizáciu and posilnenie army. This time fully taken advantage of, and in the year 1449 already boli fully ready to ďalšie ťaženie. Deliberately been violated prímerie and from June 1449 sa renew vojnové operácie. Ich cieľom bolo obsadenie Normandy and zničenie English forces at kontinente. Recess in bojoch, Angličania used. The weak government of Henry VI. allow rôznym šľachtickým frakciám to fight for your záujmy and kráľovstvo bolo nepripravené on ďalšie round match in Storočnej vojne. The English army was weak and nedostatočne stocked.

In the winter, 1449 sa in Cherbourg zhromaždila a small English army under the command of sir Thomas Kyriella. Angličania sa pripravovali on a hard stret with francúzskymi forces far mestečka Carentan. The English army took pozície pri dedinke Formigny. Angličania mali already tradične superiority počte lukostrelcov, what im oftentimes allow zvrátiť fight aj with a large overwhelming number of the adversary.

Francúzska army under the leadership of Charles de Clermont began čelne útočiť on English pozície. The first attacks of the sa working fine Angličanom odrážať. After about three hours on the bojisko arrived units bretónskeho the. Angličania had to reagovať. Čiastočne left my pozície to be able to zaujať position against a new opponent, who progressed to the English postaveniam on the side. It was the krízový jiffy fights. Fire silo English lukostrelcov, ktorí had to opustiť prepared a safe position sa communism by dividing between two protivníkov and necessary sa so weakened him effect. Under útokmi of the two sides of the sa English línia fell apart and was trounced. Sir Thomas Kyriell padol into zajatia.

After bitke nezostali in Normandy významnejšie the English forces and so the whole Normandia with the exception of the city of Calais fell to the francúzskych rcoa. In bitke they used francúzska army aj dve does, but pa weapon bola ešte len in plienkach. Rozhodujúcim faktorom bol arrival Bretóncov and ich attack into the side of the English army


Situačný sketch of the fighting during Formigny.

Source:
http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/formigny.htm.

Bojisko pri Formigny today.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Formigny..