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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: [OT] Re: Bows and Arrows
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:00:32 +0100
According to Andrew Spurgeon, at 21:02 on 2 Nov 98, the word on the street was...

> B) When the longbow was developed it got rid of steel armor because it could
> punch through it, it was then that the gun was invented so Traditional Armor
> was no longer in circulation, that is why the arrow was replaced.

Ahem. Longbows were used in Britain since what, the 11th century? Normal
armor at this time, for people like Norman knights anyway, was chain mail
with an iron helmet. The battle of Agincourt, which started this thread,
took place in 1415 and knights wore full plate by then. My conclusion is
that the longbow did not make steel armor obsolete...

As a matter of fact, even as late as the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71,
French cuirrassiers (sp?) wore steel breastplates, which IIRC were quite
effective even against the muskets of the Napoleonic wars some 60 years
earlier.

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