Summary: <p><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px;">In 1340 against all the odds - of numbers and quality - Edward defeated Philip VIth's Great Army of the Sea at Sluys. The impact on morale, English and French was dramatic. But none the less Edward's campaign still failed at the walls of Tournai, and his problems of debt and discordant allies rose like a flood around him.</span></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=OtBU1C3X6cQ:W8McF7-oqf8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=OtBU1C3X6cQ:W8McF7-oqf8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?a=OtBU1C3X6cQ:W8McF7-oqf8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheHistoryOfEngland?d=qj6IDK7rITs" for href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> </div>
