The first cannon fiered.

     The first cannon fired was in a battle that occered near Crecy in northern France early in the Hundred Years War, marks the first use of cannon on the battlefield. According to Arab historian Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, the Mamluks employed the first cannon in history against the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260. In the end, it may come down to how the word cannon was defined in those days.Gun powder wepons was very new and rare in the 13th centry, the French may have used their own version of the cannon against England’s Edward III at Cambrai seven years before they ran into him again at Crécy. But Edward usually gets the credit for bringing the big guns to war; the English reportedly deployed between five and 22 of them on the field at Crécy.The actual damage caused by Edward’s primitive cannon was negligible, not surprising when you consider that the projectile was just a stone that had been rounded into something resembling a cannonball. But the guns flashed and made a loud noise, and nothing like them had been seen by these soldiers before.
     Crécy was a decisive English victory and a crushing defeat for Philip VI. Not only were the French routed, suffering upwards of 30,000 casualties, but the road to the chief Channel port of Calais was now open to the English. It fell after a siege that lasted nearly a year.Although the cannons battlefield debate was not sucessful, the cannon was here to stay. Within a few decades, most major combatants had powder-and-shot cannons in their arsenals. The French fired 100-pound stone balls during a siege in 1375, Balkan gunners fired on Venetian ships in 1378, and the Ottoman Turks reportedly used cannon at the First Battle of Kossovo in 1389.