Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Correct! Noun: battle of crecy Your choice? a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under King Philip of Valois a battle (1898) in which an Anglo-Egyptian army under Lord Kitchener defeated the Sudanese the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but is was not a Union victory