CRÉCY

krāsēˈ, officially Crécy-en-Ponthieu–äN–pôNtyöˈ, village, Somme dept., N France. A nearby forest is popular for camping. At Crécy, on Aug. 26, 1346, Edward III of England defeated Philip VI of France in the Hundred Years War. The French forces were armed with crossbows and, although outnumbering the English troops, were overwhelmed by the English longbows. The victory enabled the English to reach Calais. Among the combatants were Edward the Black Prince of England and the blind John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia, who, fighting for the French, died in the battle. Crécy is also known in English as Cressy.

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Villette
Book by Charlotte Brontë; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899
Subjects: Fiction
...LITTLE COUNTESS 332 XXVI. A BURIAL 348 XXVII. THE HOTEL CRECY 366 XXVIII. THE WATCHGUARD 385 XXIX. MONSIEURS FETE...
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The Hundred Years War
Book by Robin Neillands; Routledge, 1990
Subjects: France--History--14th Century, France--History--15th Century, Great Britain--History--14th Century, Great Britain--History--15th Century, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...encounters 1330-46 68 6 Crecy and Calais 1346-7 93 7...2 France in 1337 45 3 Crecy and Normandy 94 4 Poitiers...standing on the site of Edward IIIs mill at Crecy and giving a view of the battlefield...
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The Welsh Wars of Edward I: A Contribution to Medieval Military History Based on Original Documents
Book by John E. Morris; Combined Publishing, 1996
Subjects: Edward--I--King Of England--1239-1307, Great Britain--History, Military--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--Edward I, 1272-1307, Wales--History--1063-1536
...was destined to make them the victors at Crecy and Poitiers, it is equally true that...their good shooting on the terraces of Crecy. It is clear that the earliest foot, partly...understand the constitution of the army of Crecy and Calais, which was paid from Black...
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Plantagenet England, 1225-1360
Book by Michael Prestwich; Clarendon Press, 2005
Subjects: England--Civilization--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--Plantagenets, 1154-1399
...p. xvii 21 1 6.I Wales I43 9. Scotland 237 i i. The Crecy campaign, I346 317 I I.z English campaigns, I355-60 322...French navy. One of the explanations for the English victory at Crecy was that a shower of rain just before the engagement had soaked...
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The Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus
Book by L. J. Andrew Villalon, Donald J. Kagay; Brill, 2005
Subjects: France--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, France--History, Military--1328-1589, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--France, Great Britain--History, Military--1066-1485, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...by Philip VI, Edward made a stand near Crecy on August 26 where he won the first of...shambles, its king fled the battlefield. At Crecy, the heir to the English throne, Edward...13 Alfred H. Burne, The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred...
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'Edward III' in 'Henry V.'
Journal article by E. Pearlman; Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Edward III (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Henry V (Theater)--Analysis, Historical drama, English--16th century, Shakespeare, William--Adaptations
...The situation in Edward III was this: Crecy has been fought and won and the king has...historical event dating from the aftermath of Crecy was reported by Froissart, nurtured by...in bringing the enemy to heel. At both Crecy in the one play and Agincourt in the other...
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Le Roman De Ponthus et Sidoine
Journal article by Jane H. M. Taylor; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Le Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine (Book)--Reviews
...Ponthus et Sidoine, ed. Marie-Claude de Crecy, Textes litteraires francais 475 (Geneva...moralistic treatise for his daughters? Crecy remains, rightly, coolly sceptical. The...doubt its accuracy. For reasons of economy, Crecy gives variants only on those occasions...
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Jean Wauquelin: La Belle Helene De Constantinople: Mise En Prose D'une Chanson De Geste
Journal article by Rebecca Dixon; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Jean Wauquelin: La Belle Helene de Constantinople: mise en prose d'une chanson de geste (Book)--Book reviews
...geste, edition critique par Marie-Claude de Crecy, Textes litteraires francais 547 (Geneva...edition of the manuscript, Marie-Claude de Crecy takes immense scholarly care to place the...remarks. This, though, is to quibble: de Crecy is to be applauded for bringing this splendid...
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Shakespeare's Edward III: A Consolation for English Recusants
Journal article by J.P. Conlan; Comparative Drama, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Armada, 1588--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Art, Elizabethan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English drama--1454-1700, Reformation in art--Analysis, Shakespeare, William--Authorship, The Raign of King Edward the Third (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United Kingdom--History, 1558-1603 (Elizabethan era)
...detail the English conquests at Sluys, Crecy, Calais, and Poitiers. This largely unexplained...English victory at Sluys, nor does it end at Crecy. But as it draws to the high point of Edward...after the French retreat is sounded at Crecy in act 3 that Edward declares, Just-dooming...
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"Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead": Henry V and the Politics of the English History Play
Journal article by Alison Thorne; Shakespeare Studies, 2002
Subjects: Henry V (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Historical drama, Literature--Themes, motives
...Henrys "mighty ancestors" at the battle of Crecy nearly seventy years before: Look...figuration of the Black Princes victory at Crecy in 1346 in terms of a dramatic mise-enscene...idealized chivalric past evoked by the name of Crecy existed at a double historical remove from...
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Poitiers: High Point of the Hundred Years' War: Ian Mortimer Remembers the English Triumph at Poitiers in September 1356, and Suggests That This Victory Was the Dramatic Culmination of Edward III's Visionary Approach to Waging War, the Consequences of Which Are Still with Us Today
Magazine article by Ian Mortimer; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006
Subjects: Battle of Poitiers, 1356--Research, Edward III, King of England--Military policy, Military art and science--Methods, Military art and science--Research, Military campaigns--Research, Military science--Methods, Military science--Research
...campaign which culminated in the battle of Crecy, and which was followed by the siege of...fact one could argue that the battle of Crecy itself, fought on August 26th 1346, is...defeated du Fay and opened the road to Crecy. On August 26th, 1346, Edward probably...
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The King Goes Forth at the Guildhall
Magazine article by Margaret Davies; Musical Opinion, Vol. 132, May/Jun 2009
...dominant Prime Minister and march the entire population across the frozen channel to fight the French at their battlefields of Crecy and Calais. On the way he assumes the mantle of kingship, and with power comes corruption, tyranny and inhumanity, a message...
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The World of Paperbacks
Magazine article; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Autumn 2007
...Edward III Father of the English Nation (pounds sterling8.99), the first really detailed and balanced look at the victor of Crecy, Patrick Dillons The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World (pounds sterling8.99), a well written account...
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Calais Falls to Edward III and His English Army (Part of Hundred Years War, August 4, 1347)(freeze Frame)
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 47, August 1997
Subjects: Calais, France--History, Edward III, King of England--Military policy, England--Relations with France, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Personalities
...reaped a rich reward with his famous victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346, where the firepower of English archers wrought...moved with great reluctance to take the field -- the trauma of Crecy remaining fresh in the minds of the French commanders. Philips...
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The Medieval World
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 55, May 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Charlemagne: The Great Adventure (Book)--Book reviews, Mammoth Book of King Arthur (Book)--Book reviews, Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England (Book)--Book reviews
...written the first largescale account of a key early battle of the Hundred Years War in The Battle of Crecy (Boydell Brewer, 25 pounds sterling). Crecy has been relatively neglected in comparison to Agincourt, and this book sets it in the context of...
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Into Battle for Queen and Canal; in Action: The Storming of Tel- El- Kebir, by Alphonse Marie De Neuville, the Highland Brigade Securing the Suez Canal on September 13, 1882
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 23, 2008
...of England, who fought at the battles of Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356); Sir John de...carried the Standard Royal at the battle of Crecy. John, 2nd Lord Mohun, served in the wars...Prince; Sir Hugh Courtenay, a veteran of Crecy; Sir Thomas Holland, later 1st Earl of...
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Victory to the Longbow; Doubts on Weapon's Deadliness Blown Away
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 9, 2006
...feats of arms including improbable victories over the French at Crecy and Agincourt. But over the past 30 years some historians have...repeating the againsttheodds success of Edward III with archers at Crecy, also in France, in 1346. Captured archers would often have...
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Warrior We Forgot; Books
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 20, 2005
Subjects: Books
Warrior We Forgot; Books. Byline: PATRICK BISHOP The Bristol Blenheim by Graham Warner Crecy Publishing pounds sterling34.95 .pounds sterling27.95 This is the story of the forgotten British aeroplane of the Second World...
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PASTIMES: All Action Holiday Day out; There Are Plenty of Options for Those Looking for a Day out with a Difference This Easter. Travel Editor Paul Groves Looks at One of the Best in Rural Warwickshire
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 26, 2005
...excitement and action of the battle of Crecy. The renowned re-enactment group, the...with a sense of theatre. The Battle of Crecy demonstratedthe power of the English longbow...english-heritage.org.uk All action at the battle of Crecy, with the help of re-enactment group The...
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England's Secret Weapon; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 11, 2006
...something else? THE expression dates back to the battles of Crecy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War with France in the 14th...wisdom of this precaution was proved at the decisive Battle of Crecy in 1346 when, after pouring rain, the English longbowmen vanquished...
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CrÉcy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CRECY krase , officially Crecy-en-Ponthieu aN poNtyo , village, Somme dept., N France. A nearby forest is popular for camping. At Crecy, on Aug. 26, 1346, Edward III of England defeated Philip VI of France...
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Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Bohemia (1346 78). The son of John of Luxemburg , Charles was educated at the French court and fought the English at Crecy , where his fathers heroic death made him king of Bohemia. Pope Clement VI , to whom he had promised far-reaching concessions...
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Edward the Black Prince
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1343. Joining his father in the campaigns of the Hundred Years War, he established his reputation for valor at the battle of Crecy (1346). It was apparently the French who called him the Black Prince, perhaps because he wore black armor; the name was not...
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John of Luxemburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...As a result of his campaigns he ruled parts of Lombardy and Tyrol briefly. He died fighting on the side of the French at Crecy though he had become blind. He was succeeded by his son, who later became Holy Roman emperor as Charles IV...
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Philip VI , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Edward signed a three-year truce in 1343, but it lasted only two years. Edward invaded Normandy and defeated (1346) Philip at Crecy . In 1347 the English captured Calais, which they held for nearly two centuries. To finance the war Philip resorted to extraordinary...
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