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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Plantagenet England, 1225-1360
Book by Michael Prestwich; Clarendon Press, 2005
Subjects: England--Civilization--1066-1485, Great Britain--History--Plantagenets, 1154-1399
...forcing a crossing. They then advanced to Crecy through the forest. On 26 August Edward...chosen ground between the villages of Crecy and Wadicourt. It is at first sight surprising...march from the Seine to the Somme. At Crecy, however, he had the opportunity to fight...
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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
...Abbeville. Edward stayed in the Foret de Crecy on Friday 25 August, while his scouts...marched on slowly through the Foret de Crecy, finally coming out into open country...long ridge that runs between the town of Crecy and the village of Wadicourt. These two...
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The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account
Book by Robert M. Adams; Norton, 1983
Subjects: English Literature--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History, Literature And Society--England
...carefully north to the little village of Crecy, where the English stood and fought June...Adrianople a thousand years before. At Crecy, it did not work at all, and the reason...arrow. Gerald de Barri, writing before Crecy, tells us that the archers of his day...
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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 force. Even after Agincourt as after Crecy the rulers of France had no immediate inclination...Edward III at Halidon Hill (1333) and Crecy. His great-uncle the Black Prince could...Pedro the Cruel back on the throne, that Crecy and Poitiers had pushed Jean II and his...
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Knighton's Chronicle 1337-1396
Book by G. H. Martin, Henry Knighton; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Medieval Period, 1066-1485--Sources
...to the hour of compline. The Battle of Crecy. 2 And then, because Philippe Valois...Edward went with his men into the forest of Crecy. And about midday new reports came to...his men, and marched to the bridge at Crecy, and about the hour of vespers or a...
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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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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...English victory at Sluys, nor does it end at Crecy. But as it draws to the high point of...after the French retreat is sounded at Crecy in act 3 that Edward declares, Just...
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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 back...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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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...its accuracy. For reasons of economy, Crecy gives variants only on those occasions...
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William Gaddis
Journal article by John Beer; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 21, 2001
Subjects: American literature--Analysis, Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gaddis, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...sketch as an illustration of the battle of Crecy (147). While McCandless, himself no...to those that darkened "the skies over Crecy" (107). And Lesters reading carries...intimations of the final pages: just as Crecy inaugurated the use of firepower, the...
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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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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...
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Cavalry to Computer; the Pattern of Military Revolutions
Magazine article by Andrew F. Krepinevich; The National Interest, Fall 1994
Subjects: Revolutions--Analysis, War--Analysis
...as was demonstrated at the battles of Laupen (1339) and Crecy (1346).(2) Following these engagements, major cavalry...Military History, April 1993, pp.241-78. 2 At the Battle of Crecy, for example, the French lost 1,542 knights and lords...
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Neo-strategicon: Modernized Principles of War for the 21st Century
Magazine article by Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Jeffrey Alfiers; Military Review, Vol. 86, March 2006
Subjects: Military history, Military strategy
...sworded infantrymen before they could land a blow; English bowmen destroyed the flower of French knighthood from long distance at Crecy; and during the first Gulf War, American tanks simply outranged Iraqi T-72s to win a crushing victory at the Battle of 73...
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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
...England, who fought at the battles of Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356); Sir John...carried the Standard Royal at the battle of Crecy. John, 2nd Lord Mohun, served in the...Prince; Sir Hugh Courtenay, a veteran of Crecy; Sir Thomas Holland, later 1st Earl of...
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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...org.uk All action at the battle of Crecy, with the help of re-enactment group...
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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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Victory to the Longbow; Doubts on Weapon's Deadliness Blown Away on MoD Test Range
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...the against-the-odds success of Edward III with archers at Crecy, also in France, in 1346. Edward made weekly archery practice...
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A King Worth Fighting For. Books
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 9, 2006
...Hill in 1333 and later the celebrated routing of the French at Crecy in 1346. To the Arthurian notion of a chivalric king- commander...transform the notion of warfare. The use of the English longbows at Crecy, with a killing range of up to 250 yards, showed the way war...
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encyclopedia articles on: CrEcy  - 9 results

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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...
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Hundred Years War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...winning small success on land but defeating (1340) a French fleet at the battle of Sluis . In 1346 he won the battle of Crecy and besieged Calais, which surrendered in 1347. In 1356 the English won the battle of Poitiers, capturing King John II of...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...complicated by many secondary issues, notably civil troubles in Flanders and the War of the Breton Succession . The French defeats at Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356), the epidemic of the Black Death, the Parisian insurrection under Etienne Marcel (1357 58...
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Bow and Arrow
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a later crossbow, was clumsy and slow. By the end of the 13th cent. use of the crossbow had declined. At the battle of Crecy (1346) English longbowmen, firing from fixed positions, proved far more efficient than Genoese crossbowmen fighting for...
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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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