During the Treaty of Bretigny negotiations in 1360, French forces launched a damaging raid on the south coast. The raid on Winchelsea on Palm Sunday 1360 was particularly savage — townspeople were massacred and the town burned. The Romney Marsh coastal communities and the Cinque Ports suffered severely. Edward III reportedly wept when he heard the news at Canterbury. The raids demonstrated the vulnerability of the southeast coast and accelerated the building of coastal defences.
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