Thanks, Steve, just watched a bit late for 26 Aug, 1346, but there it is. I enjoyed it but there was much criticism in comments:
Oh I don’t know … thought the footage of the event quite good for 1346. Naturally, after Crecy, one reads Agincourt and by degrees … the Siege of Orléans … which in turn involves Jeanne la Pucelle.
There were three earlier 14th century examples of great battles won by infantry against cavalry. So Crécy was nothing special.
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JH: Wonder who dreamed up the strategy.
Nothing ‘special’ to you because the word English is in it – you’ve got form, mate. The Battle of Crécy was of immense significance, it changed the balance of power in Western Europe with the port Calais falling to the English, who held it for two hundred years.
‘The battle at Crécy shocked European leaders because a relatively small but disciplined English force fighting on foot had overwhelmed the finest cavalry in Europe’ – Britannica
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JH: If I were asked the most significant wins before 1850, the ones a schoolkid never forgets, apart from Culloden, would it be fair to say Crecy, Trafalgar, Waterloo? Spanish Armada?
“Thought the footage of the event quite good for 1346”
They had AI in 1346?
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JH: Oh yes, MD, they used box brownie cameras shot through the air by special arrows. Amazing shots of the heat of battle, cleaned up some centuries later, by AI. So I’m told.
AI voice-overs don’t bother me too much. There is one which has me switching out immediately which sounds like the national treasure Attenbore.
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JH: Maybe modelled on him?