Longbowmen in a sentence

In 1346, King Edward III himself, accompanied by his formidable longbowmen, marched through this very gate on their way to France.

Arrow bag A style used by medieval English Longbowmen and several other cultures, an arrow bag is a simple drawstring cloth sack with a leather spacer at the top to keep the arrows divided.

A second important advantage of longbowmen was cost: they were far cheaper to equip and train than aristocratic knights.

Before England could rebuild its military leadership and force of longbowmen lost in 1429, the country lost its alliance with Burgundy when the Treaty of Arras was signed in 1435.

Due to their specialized training, English longbowmen were sought as mercenaries in other European countries, most notably in the Italian city-states and in Spain.

English longbowmen crippled the French knights for many years to come, allowing Edward to take the key Channel port of Calais in 1347.

However this did not necessarily make the longbow ineffective; thousands of longbowmen were deployed in the English victory at Agincourt against plate armoured French knights in 1415.

If the people practised archery, it would be that much easier for the King to recruit the proficient longbowmen he needed for his wars.

Increasingly they had to walk around or over fallen comrades.sfn The surviving French men-at-arms reached the front of the English line and pushed it back, with the longbowmen on the flanks continuing to shoot at point-blank range.

In the Gupta age, large armies of longbowmen were recruited to fight off invading horse archer armies.

Longbowmen were however effective at Poitiers, and this success stimulated changes in armour manufacture partly intended to make armoured men less vulnerable to archery.

Nevertheless, at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and for some decades thereafter, English longbowmen continued to be an effective battlefield force.

Nicolle Medieval Warfare Source Book: Warfare in Western Christendom p. 180 The English also employed longbowmen, but other countries were unable to create similar forces with the same success.

The boy was known as Henry of Monmouth before his coronation as Henry V ; supported by longbowmen from the area, he won the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

The combined-arms approach of the English army in which longbowmen, commoners in English society, were held as a centrepiece for the strategy began to dismantle the European focus of chivalry.

The English longbowmen attempted to support the advance of the knights but were ordered to stop shooting, as they were causing casualties among their own.

The skilled longbowmen were able to shoot volley after volley into the Yorkist position.

They were less successful after this, with longbowmen having their lines broken at the Battle of Verneuil (1424), and being completely routed at the Battle of Patay (1429) when they were charged before they had set up their defensive position.

Today, there are few modern longbowmen capable of using convert bows accurately.sfn A review of The Great Warbow "The power of a bow is measured in its draw-weight, and these days few men can pull a bow above 80lb..