<Li> Neville's Cross </Li> <Li> Les Espagnols sur Mer (Winchelsea) </Li> <P> The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France . An army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of them veterans of Crécy, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeated a larger French and allied army led by King John II of France, leading to the capture of the king, his son, and much of the French nobility . </P> <P> Poitiers was the second major English victory of the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War . Poitiers was fought ten years after the Battle of Crécy (the first major victory), and about half a century before the third, the Battle of Agincourt (1415). </P>

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