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2 - Violence and the Campaign of 1544–1546

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2019

Neil Murphy
Affiliation:
Northumbria University, Newcastle
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This chapter examines the devastating impact Henry VIII's conquest had on the native population of the Boulonnais. It shows that the English employed a severe military strategy which targeted non-combatants and led to the almost total depopulation of the region. The native inhabitants of the Boulonnais were represented as a hostile and rebellious people, which, according to the contemporary laws of war, provided the English monarch with grounds to apply harsh methods of warfare against these people. Peasants were massacred or driven from their homes as the Tudor commanders sought to clear the land of its people. English soldiers hunted down and drove out the refugee populations which had fled into woods and other remote locations. Henry’s commanders implemented a scorched-earth strategy in order to destroy the land and create a man-made famine. The final part of the chapter explores retributive violence, including reprisal attacks on English villages and the extrajudicial killing of prisoners.
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The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne
Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544–1550
, pp. 18 - 65
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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