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August 26, 1346. The French had every advantage - 30,000 men vs 9,000 English, the finest knights in Europe, home field advantage. Four hours later, 1,500 French nobles were dead. The English lost 40 men. Not 400. Forty.
This wasn't a battle - it was the end of medieval warfare. French knights literally trampled their own crossbowmen to death trying to reach the English. A blind king tied himself to his knights and charged to certain death. English peasants with longbows destroyed the entire concept of noble superiority in a single afternoon.
The Battle of Crécy proved that 500 years of knightly dominance could be ended by commoners with bent sticks and string.


Sources:

Andrew Ayton & Philip Preston - The Battle of Crécy, 1346 (2005)

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