Ontario High School History of England . he I had made it the great national weapon and hispeople developed amazing strength and skill in its use. Thelong-bowmen shot a steel-pointed arrow which couldpenetrate thick planks of oak, and even plate armour; it ison record that an arrow pierced the mail shirt, the mailbreeches, the thigh^ and the wooden saddle of a rider, andsank deep into his horses flank. To kill a horse with sucha shaft was not difficult. The fire of the long-bow wasmore rapid than that of the musket of a later time; it wasdeadly at a range of two hundred yards o
Ontario High School History of England . he I had made it the great national weapon and hispeople developed amazing strength and skill in its use. Thelong-bowmen shot a steel-pointed arrow which couldpenetrate thick planks of oak, and even plate armour; it ison record that an arrow pierced the mail shirt, the mailbreeches, the thigh^ and the wooden saddle of a rider, andsank deep into his horses flank. To kill a horse with sucha shaft was not difficult. The fire of the long-bow wasmore rapid than that of the musket of a later time; it wasdeadly at a range of two hundred yards or more, and there * CLAIM OF EDWARD III TO THRONE OF FRANCE PHILIP III Iving of France 1270-1285 I Charles of Valoia PHILIP IV. 12S5-1314 I I I I I PHILIP VI LOUIS X PHILIP V, CHARLES IV IsabeIIa= 1328-1350 1314-1316 1316-1322 1322-1328 I Edward II I I I EDWARD III, King of England JOHN I. 1316 1327-1377 THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR 119 was no smoke to obscure the archers aim. With thisweapon in his hand the English archer was now a formidable.
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