Battle Of Crecy 1346.

[Deadstick]

On the 26th August was the battle of Crecy against the French, the English Longbow came into it's own about four thousand English and two thousand Welsh Bowmen decimated the French knights a skilled long bowman could launch ten arrows a minuet once the Knights were off their horses on the ground it was a bloodbath, the French were using crossbows.

Battle of Crecy

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[Quasar44]

On the 26th August was the battle of Crecy against the French, the English Longbow came into it's own about four thousand English and two thousand Welsh Bowmen decimated the French knights a skilled long bowman could launch ten arrows a minuet once the Knights were off their horses on the ground it was a bloodbath, the French were using crossbows.

Battle of Crecy

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Yes , the English started out decimating the heavy armored French with better technology and no chivalry

 

[Zebra]

i will look it up

 

[Deadstick]

Yes , the English started out decimating the heavy armored French with better technology and no chivalry

Yes there was no chivalry involved just brutal combat.

 

[Deadstick]

i will look it up

I find it interesting, the English longbow was the MRL of it's day, to decimate an area of enemy knights, the war longbow took about 70 1bs draw to fire an arrow they must have been strong men, they also used Bodkin arrowheads to penetrate chain mail not so much plate armour, there were about 4000 English and 2000 Welsh bowmen at Crecy.

 

[my2¢]

English Longbow came into it's own about four thousand English and two thousand Welsh Bowmen decimated the French knights

The OP's attached article quickly cleared up my question about where the balanced laid in the number of troops:

An army of English, Welsh and allied troops from the Holy Roman Empire led by Edward III defeated a much larger army of French, Genoese and Majorcan troops led by Philip VI of France

 

[Quasar44]

I find it interesting, the English longbow was the MRL of it's day, to decimate an area of enemy knights, the war longbow took about 70 1bs draw to fire an arrow they must have been strong men, they also used Bodkin arrowheads to penetrate chain mail not so much plate armour, there were about 4000 English and 2000 Welsh bowmen at Crecy.

Unfortunately the only English did not have the resources to win the war !!

Funny at end of war - it was the French technology that was superior

 

[Zebra]

Really?

 

[Deadstick]

Really?

Fench cavalrymen begin to charge up the battle slope, b
ut the wet ground makes it difficult for them toadvance. Their horses are getting tired and, by the time they are in range of the longbow, horses and riders aremet with barrage after barrage of well-aimed arrows.As more and more men and horses fall, the French forces are in serious trouble. Despite the waning light,incredibly brave Frenchmen continue the battle. Refusing to give-in, to a much-smaller force, they continue tofight for their King.By midnight, after the battle has been raging for eight hours—since four in the afternoon—Philip VI is wounded.He is carried off the field, causing the French attacks to stop.Before the end of the fighting, at least 12,000 French and Genoese soldiers die. Among the dead are around 11French princes and 1200 Knights. During the same time frame, somewhere between 150-250 Englishmen arelost.The impact of the longbow, at the Battle of Crécy, is battle-changing. Although the French view the Englishstyle of fighting with the longbow as unchivalrous, they have to make changes to their own future battle plans.As we learn from Longbow Archers—“the reference site for the longbow”—Knights did not fight on horseback for many years if ever again.

Some interesting information, the weather also played it's part in the battle, just think when those French Knights were off their horses on the ground it would have been a blood bath because they would have found it very difficult to move with the heavy armour, the Genoese crossbow men were mercenaries fighting for the French.