Edward III lands at La Hougue with his army
July 1346
The English king beached at the Cotentin Peninsula with twelve thousand men and his sixteen-year-old son the Black Prince, wading ashore into Normandy's July heat. He intended a chevauchee - a wide-ranging raid burning crops and villages to draw Philip VI into battle. Within six weeks, Philip would oblige him at Crecy with catastrophic results for France.
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Also in 1346 (3 other events on record)
- Crécy: longbows annihilate French chivalry · Europe · War
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.