| "Duke Wellington at the battle of waterloo is supposed to have said that if he had but one regiment of longbowmen he'd have easily beaten the french, and when you think logically that makes a lot of sense! the longbowmen would have massacred the massed formations of unarmoured infantry and cavalry. but the people of england during the period would just not have been able to fire them."
Thats really interesting -Im goign to have a think about that one.
Because basically if thats the case why werent bows re-introduced into the English Army following the Napoleonic Campaign?
I mean. A bow is much easier to maintain than a musket/rifle surely? And cheaper to make and maintain?
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