Crécy

The account of the march through northern France to the outskirts of Paris and back, and the crossing of the Somme at Blanchetaque is comprehensive and based on records from Edward III's Clerk of the Kitchen and discusses various place names that had been contentious at the time of writing. At once both an Englishman and a Frenchman, Belloc obviously followed the paths of the two armies in detail, occasionally on foot. And for maximum accuracy, he followed the Kitchen Records of the army of Edward III.