The battle of Morlaix was fought in Brittany on 30 September 1342

between an Anglo-Breton army under William, Earl of Northampton, and a

far larger Franco-Breton force led by Charles of Blois (pictured).

England and France, fighting the Hundred Years' War since 1337, had each

sided with a faction in the Breton Civil War. The English had prepared a

defensive position and when the first of three French divisions advanced

it was shot to pieces by English archers using longbows. The second

division, of men-at-arms, attacked but their charge was halted when they

fell into a camouflaged ditch. Presented with a large, close-range

target the English archers inflicted many casualties. The English then

withdrew into a wood to their rear, which the French besieged, possibly

for several days, before Northampton broke out with a night attack. This

was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years' War and the

tactics used foreshadowed those of both the French and the English for

the rest of the 1340s.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1955:

American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a

head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

1975:

The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack

helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

2005:

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial

editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the

Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

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