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   From: william_black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
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   > "William Black"  wrote in message   
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   >> "The Highlander"  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...   
   >>   
   >> 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   
      
   How do you k now it was a ploughed field?   
      
   > i.e. after the English and Welsh longbow archers had used up all their   
   > arrows.   
      
   1.  What Welsh archers?   
      
   2.  How do you know they had no arrows left?   
      
      
    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.   
      
   1.  We do know the French attacked on foot.   
      
   2.  We do not know the archers used bodkin points,  we assume they did.   
   They may well have had a mixture and used 'type 16' as well.   
      
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   William Black   
      
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)