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Between those last precise accounts of military engagements which antiquity has left us in small number, and what may be called the modern history of war, there lies a period of many centuries--quite 1400 years--during which the details of an action and even the main features of a campaign are never given us by contemporary recorders. Through all that vast stretch of time we are compelled, if we desire to describe with any accuracy, and at any length, the conduct of a battle, to "reconstitute" the same. In other words, we have to argue from known conditions to unknown. We have to establish by a comparison. | Crecy by Hilaire Belloc 1 Crecy by Hilaire Belloc The Project Gutenberg EBook of Crecy by Hilaire Belloc This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Crecy Author Hilaire Belloc Release Date May 1 2010 EBook 32196 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRECY Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . CRÉCY Illustration CRÉCY BY HILAIRE BELLOC MCMXII STEPHEN SWIFT AND CO. LTD. 16 KING STREET COVENT GARDEN LONDON Crecy by Hilaire Belloc 2 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 I. THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES 20 II. THE CAMPAIGN OF CRÉCY 29 III. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BATTLE 61 IV. THE TERRAIN OF CRÉCY 91 V. THE ACTION 100 CRÉCY INTRODUCTION Between those last precise accounts of military engagements which antiquity has left us in small number and what may be called the modern history of war there lies a period of many centuries--quite 1400 years--during which the details of an action and even the main features of a campaign are never given us by contemporary recorders. Through all that vast stretch of time we are compelled if we desire to describe with any accuracy and at any length the conduct of a battle to reconstitute the same. In other words we have to argue from known conditions to unknown. We have to establish by a comparison of texts and of traditions and by other processes which will be dealt with in a moment a number of elements which where a modern action is concerned numerous memoirs and official record often accompanied by elaborate maps can put clearly before us. We should note that the line of division between what we will call a medieval battle and a modern one though it cannot of course be precisely established corresponds roughly to the sixteenth century. The battles of the

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