Sword
Heavy Armour
Lances, Javelins, & Spikes
The Shield
The LongBow
Heavy Armour
Lances, Javelins, & Spikes
The Shield
The LongBow
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i've always loved the longbow and i admire the guys that used them immensely
i've got a 25lb recurve bow and that takes an awful lot of pulling but the longbow's that were in use were upwards of a 90lb pull -- no wonder they didn't need to be near the centre of the battlefield
i just wonder how big the guys were that were using longbows - they must have been huge either that or technique was really impressive
one other weapon that i will add to the list but it's more of a newage weapon is the Enfield rifle - think that it was voted one of the best in it's class in it's day
As far as I know the archers over developed the muscles in the drawing arm. Either way, long bowman were seen as vermin. They were rather dirty as the enemy closed them down and did what ever they needed to do as a necessity.
and ????? they were at war - s^%t happens you do anything to protect you and your friends whilst getting the job done by any means necessary also that was also a time up great upheaval and turmoil in the political classes so backstabbing and skullduggery were the norm
all is not lost in love and war ---- you win some, you lose some - who really gives a tuk about how the battle was fought so long as you won
Henry made a speech emphasizing the justness of his cause, and reminding his army of previous great defeats the kings of England had inflicted on the French. The Burgundian sources have him concluding the speech by telling his men that the French had boasted that they would cut off two fingers from the right hand of every archer, so that he could never draw a longbow again. Whether this was true is open to question; as previously noted, death was the normal fate of any soldier who could not be ransomed.
As far as I know the archers over developed the muscles in the drawing arm. Either way, long bowman were seen as vermin. They were rather dirty as the enemy closed them down and did what ever they needed to do as a necessity.
I seem to remember watching a programme where they dug up a medieval longbowman's skeleton (legally) and there was a huge discrepancy in the bone density of the arms due to practicing the bow
The cutting off of the fingers is a myth, it's never been recorded. Modern warfare is every bit as bloody and nasty as it's ever been, there's still hand to hand warfare, bayonets have been drawn and used in Afghan. I can point you to any amount of soldiers without limbs to prove my point.
Donna, take a trip up to the Royal Armouries Leeds, it's well worth a visit, plus it's free. A lot of historical information there as befits such an organisation.
It was either that , or the effects of looking at too much medieval porn.