On This Day August 26

The Battle of Crécy (see below) took place on August 26, 1346 near Crécy in northern France during the Hundred Years War when the English routed the French. The French were over-reliant on crossbows that could fire only one or two bolts a minute; the English longbows were five times as fast. Because of the way the English used longbows to defeat the unwieldy crossbows of the French knights some historians call this battle the beginning of the end of chivalry.

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