The Black Prince closed his career of victory at Navaret. In that decisive
battle, fought on the 3d of April, 1367, the conqueror of Crecy and Poictiers
defeated, with immense slaughter, the disproportioned numbers of the
Usurper. Henry of Trastamere fought with desperate resolution; thrice rallied
his broken ranks, nor resigned the contest, till the flight of his brothers,
and the capture of Du Guesclin, in himself a host, rendered all resistance ineffectual.
Trastamere fled to France, and under more auspicious circumstances, and
when no longer opposed by the Black Prince, defeated and murdered Pedro,
and maintained possession of the kingdom, against the claims of John of Gaunt,
titular king of Castile and Leon.