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   "William Black"  wrote in message   
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   >> Knights were the tanks of their time and the investment in armour for   
   >> man and horse must have cost a pretty penny.  Agincourt demonstrated   
   >> the advantages of the longbow, where the French knights were   
   >> slaughtered by arrows, but still the surviviors refused to lay their   
   >> expensive armour aside and seek new solutions.   
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   > Erm...   
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   > Nope...   
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   > It seems most of the dead at Agincourt were suffocated.   
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   > The armour was mostly arrowproof by that time.   
   William, that is what happens when you charge into a ploughed field in a   
   valley after a night of heavy rain and a day of continuous drizzle, and with   
   rows of sharpened stakes and longbow archers in front of you, with forested   
   knolls ahead of you and on both your flanks, and with a disloyal Burgundian   
   rearguard at your back which walks off at a critical time in the battle,   
   i.e. after the English and Welsh longbow archers had used up all their   
   arrows. The Duke of Burgundy had killed the brother of the King of France in   
   1407, and a civil war between the Royalist and Burgundian French erupted   
   from 1410-1413. The Duke of Burgundy was himself assassinated by a   
   pro-Royalist French party in 1419, which led to a Burgundian-English   
   military alliance which was to last until 1435. Of course, longbow arrows   
   fired volley after volley into the air in large swarms in an arching   
   trajectory, tipped with bodkin points, could still wreak havoc on plate   
   armour, and of course on the knight's horses.   
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   > William Black   
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   > I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   > Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   > I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   > All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   > Time for tea.   
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