BATTLE OF SPURS. Henry VIII of England, the Emperor Maximilian,
and the Swiss, in 1513 entered into an offensive alliance against France. Henry VIII landed at Calais in the month of July, and soon formed an army of 30,000 men.
He was joined by the emperor with a good corps of horse and some foot, the emperor as a mercenary to the king of England, who allowed him a hundred ducats a day
for his table! They invested Terouenne with an army of 50,000 men; and the duc de Longueville, marching to its relief, was signally defeated on the l6th of August,
at Guinegate. This battle was called the battle of Spurs, because the French used their spurs [i.e., they spurred their horses and fled the field]
more than they did their swords. The English king laid siege to Tournay, which submitted in a few days.
Source:
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. 20th ed.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. 915.
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