Battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346

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The first major English land victory of the Hundred Years War, the battle of Crecy established Edward III and his son, Edward the Black Prince, as military heros in England, and allowed Edward to besiege and capture Calais, the most important result of this campaign. The smaller English army held the higher ground, and repeated French attacks were repulsed, largely due to the English longbowmen, but not without severe hand to hand fighting, in which the Black Prince, then only 16, was involved. Perhaps as many as four thousand French noblemen were killed in the battle, and countless others captured, throwing the French war effort into disarray.
Crecy, Battle of Five Kings, Michael Livingston. A fascinating reconstruction of the Crecy campaign and battle, using a very wide range of contemporary sources to reconsider every aspect of the campaign, from the original invasion of Normandy to the attempt to reach Edward’s allies in Flanders, the location of the battle, and the course of the fighting itself. Very well researched and makes good use of a wide range of sources, to successfully argue that the traditional location is wrong, convincing argue in favour of a new location and to provide good evidence that some aspects of the battle went rather differently to the standard account (Read Full Review)
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How to cite this article: Rickard. J., (19 August 2000), Battle of Crecy, 26 August 1346, https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_crecy.html

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