How many French prisoners survived Sluys?

How many French prisoners were taken after the Battle of Sluys?

Fewer than one hundred appear to have survived as prisoners because many captives and swimmers were killed or executed in reprisal.

A viewer asks how many Frenchmen were captured, but capture did not necessarily mean survival. Flemish spectators killed some men who reached shore, while Béhuchet was hanged from his own mast and Quiéret was beheaded in reprisal for earlier massacres and coastal raids. Bodies continued to wash ashore for weeks after the battle. The surviving prisoner total is estimated at fewer than one hundred, which helps explain why the French loss figure is so extreme.