|Battle of Cadzand| |Part of The Hundred Years' War| Battle of
Cadsand (Jean Froissart, 14th century) |Kingdom of
England||County of Flanders| |Commanders and leaders| |Sir
Walter Manny||Sir Guy, Bastard of Flanders| |Casualties and
losses| |Unknown, light||Almost total| The Battle of Cadzand was
a minor battle of the Hundred Years War fought in 1337. It
consisted of a raid on the Flemish island of Cadzand, designed
to provoke a reaction and battle from the local garrison and so
improve morale in England and amongst King Edward III's
continental allies by providing his army with an easy victory.
On 9 November Sir Walter Manny, with the advance troops for
Edward III's continental invasion, made an attempt to take the
city of Sluys, but was driven off. For Edward, the war had not
progressed as well as had been hoped at the start of the year as
vacillation by allies in the Low Countries and Germany had
prevented an invasion of France from progressing as intended and
setbacks in the Gascon theatre had prevented a