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Position:Home>History> When did English and Welsh longbows establish their credentials?Question: When did English and Welsh longbows establish their credentials!? Just an attempt to see if anyone knows an obscure fact of English historyWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: at Crecy (1347) and at Poiters (1356)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I read somewhere that the schoolroom idea that there was a short bow that got superseded by the longbow was a lot of baloney!. But the first battle won by the longbow was Falkirk, 1298!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Agincourt!. Without the help of the Welsh longbowmen, the French cavalry would have flattened us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Probably Ajincourt!.!.!.!.I THINKWww@QuestionHome@Com |