Crécy in a sentence

Battle Preparation Battle of Crécy (19th-century engraving) Edward deployed his army facing south on a sloping hillside at Crécy-en-Ponthieu ; the slope put the French mounted knights at an immediate disadvantage.

Ayton, "The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance" in Ayton & Preston (2005), pp. 25-26 Although considered to be heavy, no reliable figures exist for losses among the common French soldiery.

Edward Maunde Thompson, Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker, (Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1889) p. 248 Another account states that John of Ghistelles perished at the Battle of Crécy so there is some ambiguity as to this man.

Giovanni Villani writes of the guns: error English gun used at the Battle of Crécy With the Genoese neutralised, the French cavalry charged the English ranks, however, the slope and obstacles laid by the English disrupted the charge.

He is well known for having died while fighting in the Battle of Crécy at age 50, after having been blind for a decade.

He lost his father and many of his best knights at the Battle of Crécy in August 1346.

He was an exceptional military leader, and his victories over the French at the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers made him very popular during his lifetime.

In the Battle of Crécy Charles' father John of Luxemburg was killed; Charles himself also took part in the battle but escaped.

Manchester, UK: Crécy Books Ltd, 1995.

Preceded by the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and followed by the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, it was the second of the three great English victories of the war.

Print. Funeral Memorial to Jean I, Count of Luxembourg in Crécy funeral chapel in Kastel-Staadt Tomb of John I., Count of Luxembourg The body of John the Blind was moved to Kloster Altmünster ("Old-Minster Abbey") in Luxembourg.

Sumption (1990) p. 497 The power of Edward's army at Crécy lay in the massed use of the longbow : a powerful tall bow made primarily of yew.

The exact size of the French army is less certain as the financial records from the Crécy campaign are lost, however there is a prevailing consensus that it was substantially larger than the English.

The French army came north from Abbeyville, the advance guard of his army arriving at the Crécy ridgeline at around midday on 26 August.

The left flank was anchored against Wadicourt, while the right was protected by Crécy itself and the River Maye beyond.

The protagonist, Edmund Beche, in P.C. Doherty 's The Death of a King (1985) is present at the battle and describes it from the perspective of a bowman on the right flank near the village of Crécy.

This novel was made into a telefilm in 2012 and the Battle of Crécy is included, albeit in a very summarized form.