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Battle of Sandwich (1460)
Not to be confused with the Battle of Sandwich (1217).
The Battle of Sandwich was a naval skirmish off the town of Sandwich in January 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. In it, Sir John Denham and the Earl of WarwickCaptain of Calais, now on the Yorkist side, defeated a Lancastrian fleet and captured several of its ships. Little evidence and few details of the battle survive.

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