"Crecy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parade of the Limacon, or snail, the spectacle of St. George and the Dragon is presented. With great pride the citizens of Mons showed the British soldiers of occupation an ancient cannon, claimed to have been used by their forefathers as an ally of the English at Crecy. ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) - The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan
... OF CRECY (1346).—The first great combat of the long war was the memorable battle of Crecy. Edward had invaded France with an army of 30,000 men, made up largely of English bowmen, and had penetrated far into the country, ravaging as he went, when he finally halted, and faced ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... like, Master Guy," said Long Tom, who was in command of the archers. "It was well indeed that I asked to come home to England when I did, else had I been now mewed up at Villeroy while my lord was righting the French in the open field. Crecy was the last time an English king commanded an army in battle against France; think you that we shall ...
— At Agincourt • G. A. Henty
... we had talked of it for some time. We cannot remain here always. My cousins De Crecy are there, and my aunt De Coudremont. We shall be among friends, Petronelle, if we ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... terrible "hundred years war," wherein Englishmen, led by the descendants of their Norman and French conquerors, retaliated upon Normandy and France the woes they had themselves endured. Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt avenged Hastings; the siege of Rouen under Henry the Fifth was a strange Nemesis. During that century the state of France was almost as sad as that of England during the earlier period; it was ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
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