Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346/archive1

TFA blurb review
Before I do the blurb ... it would be too complicated (for the Main Page, anyway) to use chevauchée in two different senses, so please pick one: should I use it to mean all of the offensives together, or just the one that's labeled a chevauchée in the lead? - Dank (push to talk) 20:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I think that in the blurb it makes more sense to use chevauchée just to refer to Lancaster's personal chevauchée, and not to all of the offensives. Let me know if you would like the rationale (and/or cites) to support this. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:55, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's not necessary. How's this? - Dank (push to talk) 02:02, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346 was a large-scale mounted raid directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in south western France during the Hundred Years' War. The main English army had defeated the larger French army at the Battle of Crécy in August, and French defences in the south west were left weak and disorganised. Lancaster took advantage by leading a raid between 12 September and 31 October 1346 while sending other forces into Quercy and the Bazadais. All three offensives were successful, with Lancaster's chevauchée, of approximately 2,000 English and Gascon soldiers, meeting no effective resistance from the French, penetrating 160 mi north and storming the rich city of Poitiers. His force then razed and looted large areas of Saintonge, Aunis and Poitou, capturing numerous towns, castles and smaller fortified places as they went. The offensives completely disrupted the French defences and shifted the focus of the fighting.