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People: Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš
Topic: Winchelsea, Battle of

Winchelsea, Battle of

Years: 1350 - 1350

The naval Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer ("the Spaniards on the Sea"), or the Battle of Winchelsea, takes place on August 29, 1350, and is a victory for an English fleet of fifty ships commanded by Edward III, with the Black Prince, over a Castilian fleet of forty ships commanded by Don Carlos de la Cerda.

Between fourteen and twenty-six Castilian ships are captured, and some are sunk, while two English vessels are sunk and many suffer heavy losses.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

― George Orwell, 1984 (1948)