Battle of the Port-Ringeard
Mauldits AngloysThe battles of the Port-Ringeard takes place the May 2nd 1593 within the framework of the wars of religion. She opposes the royal army to the ligueuse army , helped of English auxiliaries.
Circumstances
The May 2nd 1593, Saint-Luc and Norris, which ordered a troop of royal and auxiliaries English, ghost of a race in Brittany, had been posted in Entrammes, leaving 150 men only on Right Bank. Those attacked by the garrison of Laval, composed especially of volunteers Laval-native and ordered by the captain of Perraudière, lost 30 or 40 men thrown in the river.But Saint-Luc and Norris occurred, passed the river and pushed back the Members of a league, killing 300 men to them and the prosecutor to the suburbs of Laval. It is the account of Philippe Duplessis-Mornay. The local chronicles say that the Residents of Laval, after their first success, were withdrawn, but that they had imprudence to stop in way and that they were surprised by a renewed attack of all the troop. 108 Residents of Laval, workmen, middle-class man, priests perished. Perhaps is necessary it to add to this number the soldiers of the garrison.
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