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To: beebuster2000

Thanks!

The battles of Crecy (1346, the Plague first struck Britain in 1348) and Agincourt (1415) were both in large part due to the English proficiency with the (Welsh) Longbow.

The longbow has been said to be one of the casualties of the Black Death — breakdown of the feudal economy led to wage labor, which in turn led to the hoi polloi using the new income to, basically, go shopping, instead of practicing their archery.


39 posted on 10/18/2017 12:14:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

interesting that the use of the bow depended on a culture and family structure specialization as bowmen, along with higher status


42 posted on 10/18/2017 10:59:59 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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