Crécy
1346, Triumph of the Longbow by David Nicolle
The battle of Crécy
was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War. It pitted the
French Army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous
allies against the English under King Edward III and the 'Black Prince',
who as yet had no great military reputation; this was the battle where he
'won his spurs'. The Genoese crossbowmen were outshot by the English
longbows and the pattern was set for the rest of the day: the French
cavalry were committed piecemeal in fruitless charges against strong
English positions, losing perhaps 10,000 men in the course of the
fighting. After almost a millennium in which cavalry had dominated the
field of battle, the infantrymen, and particularly the longbowmen, now
ruled supreme.
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