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Warwick Calais Raid on Sandwich 1460

1460
England
Era
Medieval
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Lancastrian royal fleet
Forces
Sandwich royal fleet
VS
Victor
Warwick's Calais garrison
Forces
Warwick's Calais garrison raiders
Outcome
Rivers and Woodville captured; Lancastrian fleet weakened; Yorkist return to England possible by June 1460
The Battle

History & Significance

Warwick's Calais garrison raided Sandwich in January 1460 and carried off the Lancastrian fleet commander Lord Rivers and his son Anthony Woodville, who were brought to Calais and mocked by the earls. The raid neutralised the royal fleet and opened the way for the Yorkist return to England in June 1460.

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Scheduled Monuments near Warwick Calais Raid on Sandwich 1460

Sandwich town walls: section from New Gate to Woodnesborough Gate
Scheduled monument · ~0.2 miles
Sandwich town walls: section from a point E of gasworks to site of New Gate (including The Bulwark and Mill Wall)
Scheduled monument · ~0.3 miles
Sandwich town walls: site of the Round House
Scheduled monument · ~0.4 miles
The Fisher Gate
Scheduled monument · ~0.4 miles
Sandwich town walls: section from Woodnesborough Gate to Canterbury Gate
Scheduled monument · ~0.5 miles
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