Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Damme (Wars of Philip Augustus).

Fought April, 1213, when an English fleet of 500 vessels under the Earl of Salisbury attacked and dispersed a large fleet of French ships designed to support Philip Augustus' invasion of Flanders. The English captured 300 and burnt 100 vessels, and Philip Augustus was forced to abandon his design.