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Battle of Les Formigues

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blamed treachery for the capture of the French admiral Guilhem. It is said that three hundred French prisoners were sent back to France. All of the prisoners but one had their eyes gouged out, and that one was left with one eye to guide the others. The prisoners brought one message from Roger of
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The accounts agree that it happened at night, which was unusual for medieval naval battles, but suited Lauria who was skilled at night-fighting. He used two lanterns on each galley to increase his apparent numbers. Ten to sixteen Genoese galleys under John de Orreo fled, leaving about fifteen to
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to the north. Either Lauria or the French were ashore for the night and encountered by the other, or they were both at sea when the encounter took place.
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The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350: Essays in Honor of Thomas N. Bisson
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places the battle at Les Formigues (or Fomigas), while Muntaner favoured a location off
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There are three almost completely different accounts of this battle: from
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III, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto, edd. Ashgate, 2005, pp. 129–51.
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twenty French galleys to be captured, and some others sunk or burnt.
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defeated a French and Genoese galley fleet commanded by
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Les 600 plus grandes batailles navales de l'histoire
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15–20 or more galleys sunk, burnt, or captured
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Index

Aragonese Crusade
Formigues Islands
Girona
Catalonia
Spain
Kingdom of Sicily
Crown of Aragon
France
Republic of Genoa
Roger of Lauria
Ramon Marquet
Berenguer Mallol
Guilhem de Lodeva
Henry di Mari
John de Orreo
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War of the Sicilian Vespers
Sicilian Vespers
Messina
Nicotera
Malta
Aragonese Crusade
Gulf of Naples
Les Formigues
Col de Panissars
The Counts
Angevin invasion of Sicily
Cape Orlando

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