Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?
by nradov on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:27PM
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There certainly was a difference based on nutrition, but the English longbowmen still had to be quite strong. Those bows had heavy draw weights.
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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?
by dodobirdlord on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:42AM
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The longbow armies of Wales and England were made up of yeomen, who were certainly well into the upper end of medieval society. There certainly weren't very many of them. There were only 5000-6000 at the Battle of Agincourt, and the loss of ~2500 of them 14 years later at the Battle of Patay crippled the ability of the English to field a substantial longbow army through to the end of the Hundred Years War.