Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brutal 1346 conflict between the French army, led by Philip VI, and the English, under Edward III, after years of simmering tension. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...
The Battle of Crécy in 1346 marked a turning point in medieval warfare and England’s rise as a military force. Heavily outnumbered, the English leveraged disciplined tactics, strong defensive ...
In 1360, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch to us) wrote a letter expressing his puzzlement at a great change that had taken place during his lifetime. In his boyhood, he said, the English ‘were taken to be ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brutal events of 26 August 1346, when the armies of France and England met in a funnel-shaped valley outside the town of Crécy in northern France. Although the ...
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