Though fought in France, Crécy was quintessentially an English tactical triumph that shaped English military identity for a century. The English longbowmen destroyed sixteen French cavalry charges. Philip VI fled the field. The Black Prince won his spurs. Crécy established the tactical formula — dismounted knights, wings of archers — that would win Agincourt and shape English battle doctrine through the Wars of the Roses.
c.1,500–4,000 French killed; minimal English
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