Siege of Dieppe

Date	2 November 1442 – 14 August 1443 (1442-11-02 – 1443-08-14) (9 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location	Dieppe, Normandy, France49°55′N 1°05′E / 49.92°N 1.08°E / 49.92; 1.08
Result	French victory

Belligerents

France

England

Commanders and leaders

Dauphin Louis
Charles Desmarets
Antoine de Chabannes

John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
William Peyto (POW)

Strength

Garrison: Hundreds of men-at-arms
Relief army: 1,600 men

600 men
200 artillery pieces

Casualties and losses

100 killed
Hundreds wounded

300 killed
14 executed
Artillery pieces captured

v t e Hundred Years' War
Edwardian phase Second War of Scottish Independence War of the Breton Succession Castilian Civil War War of the Two Peters Caroline phase Despenser's Crusade 1383–1385 Crisis Glyndŵr rebellion Armagnac–Burgundian conflict Lancastrian phase

v t e Hundred Years' War Lancastrian phase (1415–1453)
1415–1420 Harfleur Agincourt Valmont 1st Caen Rouen 2nd La Rochelle 1421–1428 Baugé Meaux Cravant La Brossinière Verneuil St. James Montargis 1428–1430 Orléans Herrings Loire Jargeau Meung-sur-Loire Beaugency Patay Reims Paris Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier La Charité Compiègne 1435–1444 Gerberoy St. Denis Paris Calais Creil Pontoise Tartas Dieppe 1449–1450 Normandy campaign of 1449–1450 Formigny 2nd Caen Falaise Cherbourg 1450–1453 Gascon campaign of 1450–1453 Blanquefort 1st Bordeaux Martignas Castillon 2nd Bordeaux

Hundred Years' War
Lancastrian phase (1415–1453)

1415–1420

1421–1428

1428–1430

1435–1444

1449–1450

1450–1453

The siege of Dieppe (2 November 1442 – 14 August 1443) took place during the Hundred Years War where English forces led by John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury besieged and failed to capture the French-held port of Dieppe in Normandy.

Prelude

The English commander John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury marched out with a core troop of 600 men from his headquarters in Jumièges, Normandy at the end of October 1442 to besiege the French-held port of Dieppe. The French garrison of the castle of Charlemesnil surrendered to Talbot's army.

Siege

Talbot built a wooden fort on the heights of Le Pollet east of Dieppe and installed a garrison of 500 men under Sir William Peyto along with 200 artillery pieces of various make and began to bombard Dieppe's fortifications and houses with them.

On 12 August 1443 a French relief army of 1,600 men under the dauphin Louis arrived at Dieppe, which was garrisoned by several hundred men-at-arms led by Charles Desmarets. Two more French armies had reinforced the town previously. At 8 am on 14 August, the French attacked the English fort to the sound of trumpets. The French had five or six wooden bridges on wheels and cranes that hoisted the bridges into position over the English walls. The attacking French troops were repulsed by English missile and arrow fire and lost 100 killed and hundreds wounded.

The citizens of Dieppe reinforced the French army with between 60 and 80 large crossbows and the dauphin ordered the attack renewed. The English were defeated, with 300 killed and 14 French-speaking survivors hanged as traitors on the dauphin's orders. Sir William Peyto, Sir John Ripley and Henry Talbot were captured, among others. The fort was dismantled on the dauphin's orders and the artillery carried off to Dieppe's arsenal.

Citations

^ Barker 2010, p. 313.
^ Barker 2010, p. 301.
Barker 2010, pp. 301–302.
Barker 2010, pp. 313–314.
^ Barker 2010, p. 314.

References

Barker, Juliet R. V. (2010). Conquest : the English kingdom of France in the Hundred Years War. London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-12202-1.

Categories: