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Topic: Gisors, Battle of
Location: Bad Hersfeld Hessen Germany

Gisors, Battle of

Years: 1198 - 1198

The Battle of Gisors (September 27, 1198) is a skirmish fought in Courcelles-lès-Gisors, Oise, Picardie, part of the ongoing fighting between Richard I of England and Philip Augustus of France that lastes from 1194 to Richard's death in April 1199.

The earlier conflict had restarted after the truce between the two kings— just long enough to see the harvest in, according to the chronicler Roger of Hoveden— expired.

Both kings invade and pillage each other's territory, causing great suffering to the local population by having their captives' eyes put out.

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only to avoid them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)