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CRESSY

Volume 3 · 45 words · 1778 Edition

a port-town of Picardy in France, about 44 miles south of Calais, and 27 north-west of Abbeville, remarkable on account of the victory obtained there over the French, by Edward III. of England, in the year 1346. E. Long. 2. o. N. Lat. 50. 20.