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How the Longbow Ended Knights in Shining Armor

TALES FROM THE TRENCHES

Historians love watershed moments, and few in military history in the West were as important as the battle of Crecy in 1346.

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Published Apr. 9 2016 12:01AM EDT

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Robert Bateman

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