This impatience would turn out to be a grave mistake.
The invaders had been following a scorched earth policy, and as a result the opposition arrived hungry, tired, and eager for battle. This impatience would turn out to be a grave mistake. After dispatching with the Genoese crossbowmen, the British force, which was camped out on the Maie River in between Wadicourt and the enormous namesake forest, had to withstand the charge of King John of Bohemia and Charles, the Comte de Alencon. But this charge, as well as many successive ones, would come up short, as knight upon knight fell to quick loaded British missiles. Edward the Black Prince acquitted himself well as his father Edward III won a victory over Philip VI's forces at FTP, what August 1346 battle that signaled the arrival of the English army due to the supremacy of the Longbow
The invaders had been following a scorched earth policy, and as a result the opposition arrived hungry, tired, and eager for battle.
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