Battle of Crécy
During the Hundred Years War, King Edward III's small English army annihilates a much larger French force at the Battle of Crécy in Normandy. The battle, which saw an early use of the deadly longbow … (more...)
August 26
This Day in History
1346
1346
First Cannon Fired in Battle, Maybe
On this day in 1346, English soldiers under Edward III rain terror on Genoese mercenaries under Philip VI of France at the Battle of Crecy in the Hundred Years War with what is perhaps the first … (more...)
This Day in History
January 29
TV Guide
- 9:30pm Rudolf Hess: Hitler's Mentor
- 11:00pm Hunters in the Sky
- 11:30pm Night Bombers
- 12:30am Tony Robinson's Time Travels Rec
- 1:00am Tony Robinson's Time Travels Rec
- 1:30am The World From Above Rec
- 2:00am The World From Above Rec
- 2:30am The Civil War by Ken Burns Rec
- 3:15am Battlefleet Rec
- 4:00am Flying Tigers Rec
- 4:45am World's Greatest Palaces Rec
- 5:30am Rudolf Hess: Hitler's Mentor Rec
- 7:00am Hunters in the Sky Rec
- 7:30am Night Bombers Rec
- 8:30am Time Team Rec
- 9:30am Time Team Rec
- 10:30am Penelope Keith's Hidden Coastal Villages Rec
- 11:30am Flying Tigers Rec
- 12:30pm World's Greatest Palaces Rec
- 1:30pm Strategy: The Genius of Warfare Rec
- 2:30pm WWII: Total War Rec
- 3:30pm The Civil War by Ken Burns Rec
- 4:30pm Battlefleet Rec
- 5:30pm National Treasures Of Wales Rec
- 6:00pm Dan Snow's Norman Walks Rec
- 6:30pm Penelope Keith's Hidden Coastal Villages Rec
- 7:30pm Families That Changed The World Rec
