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… like an arrow shotFrom a well-experienced archer hits the mark… Antiochus Periciles (I.1) Bataille d’Azincourt/Battle of Agincourt | Battle of Agincourt (1415), miniature tirée de l’Abrégé de la Chronique d’Enguerrand de Monstrelet, XVe siècle, Paris, BnF, département des Manuscrits, manuscrit Français 2680, folio 208. | Frühes 15. Jahrhundert (early 15th century) | Antoine Leduc, Sylvie Leluc et Olivier Renaudeau (dir.), D’Azincourt à Marignan. Chevaliers et bombardes, 1515-1515, Paris, Gallimard / Musée de l’armée, 2015, p. 18-19, ISBN 978-2-07-014949-0 | Author Chroniques d’Enguerrand de Monstrelet (early 15th century). Source Check out the History of England's blog post that includes an animated map of the Battle of Agincourt. Powerful and Effective Military Weapon Credited with being the reason the English won the Battle at Agincourt, the English Longbow was not only powerful and effective in battle, the English were particularly so proficient with this weapon that it came to symbolize the English national identity. So entertwined were the images of the English longbow and the power of the English military that by the time Shakespeare was writing the battle scenes for his play Henry V, there was a movement among the older generation to try and convince the younger men to take up archery. As Alan explains, the longbow was “one of the weapons that really allowed the English empire to grow. Not much before that which could match the range and effectiveness. It was a huge improvement. Used all the way up to WW2 Mad Jack Churchill known for going into battle with a longsword and longbow. Last official in war kill with the longbow in battle. “ In the military, the longbow allowed for much faster shooting. The French used crossbows, and the English had a large advantage over the crossbow specifically. Related Episode You Might Enjoy Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Richard III Richard III (V.3) Scaled down, low-resolution, copy of the movie poster for Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, released by Warner Brothers in 1991. This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of poster to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration, hosted on servers in the United States, qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Source Flaming Arrows Were Real! Fans of Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood Prince of Thieves please pay attention: the really cool, life saving, ultra heroic, flaming arrows were actually real in England’s history. In fact, customizing the arrows was one key feature to the longbow in particular. As Alan explains, “Specialty arrows, like flaming arrows. It was a bird cage head, flame material in there like an oil base to keep it lit, but they also had rigging arrows, they had a crescent moon head that oculd be fired at a ship’s rigging, and cut the rigging and drop the sails.” “Here is the crescent arrow head that was used mainly for removal...
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