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Battle of Bouvines

The Battle of Bouvines took place on 27 July 1214 near the town of Bouvines in the County of Flanders. It was the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214. Although estimates on the number of troops vary considerably among modern historians, at Bouvines, a French army commanded by King Philip Augustus routed a larger allied army led by Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV in one of the rare pitched battles of…

Battle of Bouvines
Battle of Bouvines · Horace Vernet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1214
Where
Bouvines
Era
Medieval

Topics

France359 BCE – todayKingdom of France538 CE – 1791

Before and after

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