"The English archers then advanced one step forward and shot their arrows so wholly together and so thick that it seemed snow. When the Genoese felt the arrows piercing through heads, arms, and breasts, many of them cast down their crossbows and did cut their strings and returned discomfited. The French king was sore displeased therewith. There were a great number of men of arms on horseback who rode through the Genoese to aid them; the King of England this day did a good business for he fought like a lion. His son the Prince of Wales was in great danger, but he was rescued by his father."

Jean Froissart, Chronicles, account of the Battle of Crécy, c.1369-1400. Froissart was a Flemish chronicler who spent time at the English, French, Scottish, and Flemish courts. The Chronicles cover the period 1327-1400 and are the primary narrative source for the first phase of the Hundred Years War.