n the morning of 17th August 1424 they met in open country a little north of the town of Verneuil. The Dauphin's army contained three contingents of French, Scots Knights and men-at-arms and Italian crossbowmen and cavalry. Bedford's army, though much smaller at about 10,000 was exclusively English, since Bedford had sent his Burgundian troops of to campaign in Picardy. On the other hand he had plenty of competent officers, including the Earls of Salisbury, William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, and a knight who was making a name for himself in the French Wars, Sir John Fastolf.
Bedford deployed his men in the Agincourt formation, dismounted and drawn up in line astride the Verneuil to Damville road, a mile outside the city, with the archers on the flanks. At as Agincourt, every archer had a stake. Bedford had sufficient men for a rearguard of 1,000 archers, who were deployed, about the Baggage Park where saddled horses of the knights were kept. The Dauphinist adopted a similar formation, astride the road and facing North away from Verneuil. The French, under the Duke of Aumale, were in the centre and on the flank and the Scots were on the right, with mounted contingents and the Italian crossbowmen on either flank.
The Dauphin himself was not present and overall command of the Franco-Scots army was given to the Earl of Douglas. It took most of the day to marshal the armies and it was the English who begun the battle when they advanced on the enemy line at about 4 o'clock. While they were advancing, the French cavalry suddenly charged and managed to get in among the archers on Bedford's right, before they could plant there stakes. The archers were swept away, exposing Bedford's centre, but many French knights then rode on to attack the Baggage Park. While Bedford's men-at-arms in the centre formed a front to the right and rear to fight off those French knights who attempted to outflank them, the archers at the baggage park did deadly work on the rest, littering the ground about the wagon's with dead horse and wounded knights.
Bedford then continued his advance against the Duke of Aumale's force in the centre, astride the road, and after half an hour's fighting, with Duke John wielding an axe two-handed in the front line, the French fled from the field. Meanwhile, on the English left flank, the Earl of Salisbury was fully engaged with the Scots who, before the battle, had declared their intention of giving no quarter and asked for none. They stood there ground when Aumale's men broke, and received little help from the Italian crossbowmen or the cavalry from Lombardy, like the French earlier, simply skirted the main fight to attack the baggage train, where they too, were briskly driven off by the rearguard. This left the Scots fully exposed and, as the French fell away, more and more English knights, men-at-arms and archers came to add their numbers to Salisbury's division.
A strong force of men-at-arms and archers, acting on their own initiative, charged into the right flank of the Scots, crumpling them into a mass, and then Bedford's own contingent, having driven the French back to Verneuil, returned to strike them in the rear. What followed was a massacre. The Scots, fighting stubbornly and refusing to flee, were annihilated to the last man, only a handful of their 6,000 strong contingent being captured or allowed to flee. Among the French knights, the Duc d'Aumale and the Counts of Narbonne, Ventadour and Tonnerre were dead, and the Duc d'Alencon and the Marshal Lafayette, another soldier from the field of Baugé, were taken prisoner. Among the Scots, the Earls of Buchan and Douglas, with Douglas's heir lord James, were dead, with fifty other Scottish knights. Total Franco-Scots losses at Verneuil were about 8,000 men, an awesome total when added to those lost at Cravant, and a grievous blow to Scotland. Once again, an English army had triumphed in the field, and from this time on, only a few Scots came across the seas to fight the old enemy in France.