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The Crécy campaign was a series of large-scale raids (chevauchées) conducted by the Kingdom of England throughout northern France in 1346 that devastated the French countryside on a wide front, culminating in the Battle of Crécy. The campaign was part of the Hundred Years' War.
The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 in northern France between a French army commanded by King Philip VI and an English army led by King Edward III.The French attacked the English while they were traversing northern France during the Hundred Years' War, resulting in an English victory and heavy loss of life among the French.
The campaign began on 11 July 1346, when Edward's fleet departed the south of England. The fleet landed the next day at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , [ 22 ] 20 miles (32 km) from Cherbourg . The English army is estimated by modern historians to have been some 15,000 strong and consisted of both English and Welsh soldiers combined with a number of ...
The siege of Calais (4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347) occurred at the conclusion of the Crécy campaign, when an English army under the command of King Edward III of England successfully besieged the French town of Calais during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War.
The Crécy campaign was a large-scale chevauchée conducted by an English army throughout northern France in 1346, which devastated a significant amount of the French countryside and culminated in the eponymous Battle of Crécy.
Edward III's famous campaign, the three significant military clashes during it and the 11-month siege with which it ended. --Gog the Mild 09:49, 13 June 2019 (UTC) @GamerPro64 and Juhachi: The name of the lead article, and so of the proposed featured topic, has been changed - to Crécy campaign. I am unsure what, if any, changes need to be made ...
In 1346 the French focused their effort on the south west and, early in the campaigning season, an army of 15,000–20,000 men marched down the valley of the Garonne. Aiguillon commands both the Rivers Garonne and Lot , and it was not possible to sustain an offensive further into Gascony unless the town was taken.
Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346 was a series of offensives directed by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, in southwestern France during autumn 1346, as a part of the Hundred Years' War. The year had started with a "huge" [ 1 ] French army under John, Duke of Normandy , son and heir of King Philip VI , besieging the strategically important town of ...