Blanchetaque

Cahon (French pronunciation: [kaɔ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Saigneville (French pronunciation: [sɛɲvil]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Quesnoy-le-Montant is a former railway station located in the hamlet of Saint-Sulpice, in the commune of Quesnoy-le-Montant in the Somme department, France. The station was served by TER Hauts-de-France trains from Le Tréport-Mers to Abbeville (line 25). Its elevation is 20 metres (66 ft).

Miannay (French pronunciation: [mjanɛ]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Port-le-Grand is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

The Battle of Blanchetaque was fought on 24 August 1346 between an English army under King Edward III and a French force commanded by Godemar du Fay. The battle was part of the Crécy campaign, which took place during the early stages of the Hundred Years' War. After landing in the Cotentin Peninsula on 12 July, the English army had burnt a path of destruction through some of the richest lands in France to within 20 miles (32 km) of Paris, sacking a number of towns on the way. The English then marched north, hoping to link up with an allied Flemish army which had invaded from Flanders. They were outmanoeuvred by the French king, Philip VI, who garrisoned all of the bridges and fords over the River Somme and followed the English with his own field army. The area had previously been stripped of food stocks by the French, and the English were essentially trapped. Hearing of a ford at Blanchetaque, 10 miles (16 km) from the sea, Edward marched for it and encountered the blocking force under du Fay. Once the ebbing tide had lowered the water level, a force of English longbowmen marched partway across the ford and, standing in the water, engaged a force of mercenary crossbowmen, whose shooting they were able to suppress. A French cavalry force attempted to push back the longbowmen but were in turn attacked by English men-at-arms. After a mêlée in the river, the French were pushed back, more English troops were fed into the fight, and the French broke and fled. French casualties were reported as over half of their force, while English losses were light. Two days after Blanchetaque, the main French army under Philip was defeated at the Battle of Crécy with heavy loss of life. Edward ended the campaign by laying siege to Calais, which fell after twelve months, securing an English entrepôt into northern France which was held for two hundred years.

Quesnoy-le-Montant (French pronunciation: [kenwa lə mɔ̃tɑ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Boismont (French pronunciation: [bwamɔ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Cambron (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃bʁɔ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Noyelles-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [nwajɛl syʁ mɛʁ], literally Noyelles on Sea) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Grand-Laviers (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ lavje]; Picard: Grand-Lavier) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

SM UB-37 was a German Type UB II submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 22 July 1915 and launched on 28 December 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 17 June 1916 as SM UB-37.The submarine sank 31 ships in ten patrols, and was itself sunk by British Q ship HMS Penshurst in the English Channel on 14 January 1917.The wreck of UB-37 was identified by marine archaeologist Innes McCartney in 1999.