Regional1545

Battle of Spithead

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

United Kingdom

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Spithead (1545), part of the French War of Henry VIII. England defeated France.

Belligerents2

England
France

ON THE MAPKingdom of EnglandKingdom of France

Conflict graph

PART OFItalian War of 1542–1546

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Spithead (1545). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-spithead · Sources & methodology