Conflict: French Religious Wars
Combatants: Catholic Forces vs. Huguenots
Location: France
Outcome: Catholic victory
Enroute to meet the English at Le Havre, a Huguenot army of 15,000 under the leadership of Louis I of Bourbon (the Prince de Conde) and Gaspard de Coligny stumbled into a Catholic army of 19,000. The Huguenots succeeded in capturing the enemy leader, Duc Anne de Montmorency, but a Catholic counterattack spoiled the Huguenot momentum and won the day. Each side suffered casualties of approximately 4,000 men.
Points of Interest:
Although the war began as a conflict between Catholics and persecuted Protestants, it quickly morphed, as such struggles often do, into a political battle for control of the French government.
A year after Dreux, the government issued the Edict of Amboise which allowed for freedom of worship by the Protestants.
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Sources:
Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt, & Bongard, David L. (1992). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: Castle Books (HarperCollins).
Dupuy, R. Ernest & Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: HarperCollins.
Eggenberger, David (1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
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