Myths of Agincourt

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undercovergeek

Quote from: Cheimison on October 26, 2017, 03:18:08 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 26, 2017, 03:16:10 PM
Bob, did we not win the 2 world wars or am I missing something?
Started both of them, too.
After all, you need a world empire to make a 'world war'. An almost landlocked country in central Europe is going to have a hard time doing that, no matter how mean and autocratic one deems them to be.

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England started ww1?

You will find me in the garden burning the history books

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Wouldn't have been a problem if you chaps had just let the Boche have Belgium  :crazy2:
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undercovergeek

I know, and then there's bob throwing bombs at arch dukes

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Quote from: undercovergeek on October 26, 2017, 02:51:23 PM
We're English, we beat the French - it could have been 20 yobbos from Southampton versus 2 schoolboys on a donkey from Paris - doesn't matter, we won

LOL. Quite!
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It might be of interest to this discussion that the French attempted to from a body of archers to copy the english.
The francs archers were to be a militia body of archers, intended tosupport the crown's military.
Unfortunately, the idea of each parish having an peasant assassin with a bow over the hearth, was deemed extremely dangerous by the French nobility. 
They managed to change the equipment so that perhaps a third carried bows, and the rest were outfitted like normal spearmen. 
It really didn't matter, since there was no formal unit training, and the called up militia were quite ineffective and poor.
Still, it shows how impressed the crown was by the power of the english longbowmen.

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Quote from: Cheimison on October 26, 2017, 03:31:09 PM
Fine with me, anyone who believes Court Historians is essentially in a madhouse of his own construction.

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