Dew dew! Yet again the myth of the English Longbow, it was the Welsh who introduced the Sais to the Longbow, when small bands of Welsh Bowmen would decimate the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
The favourite being to fire the arrow through the leg into the horse and then cut the enemies throat at your leisure.
As soon as the Welsh campaign was successfully over, Welsh conscripts began to be incorporated into English armies. The lessons the English learned in Wales were later used with deadly effect by Welsh mercenaries on the battlefields of France and Scotland.
Yes there were English Longbowmen but it was the Welsh who were the best!
Dew dew! Yet again the myth of the English Longbow, it was the Welsh who introduced the Sais to the Longbow, when small bands of Welsh Bowmen would decimate the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
The favourite being to fire the arrow through the leg into the horse and then cut the enemies throat at your leisure.
As soon as the Welsh campaign was successfully over, Welsh conscripts began to be incorporated into English armies. The lessons the English learned in Wales were later used with deadly effect by Welsh mercenaries on the battlefields of France and Scotland.
Yes there were English Longbowmen but it was the Welsh who were the best!
"...The longbow was first recorded as being used by the Welsh in 633 C.E., when Offrid, the son of Edwin, king of Northumbria, was killed by an arrow shot from a Welsh longbow during a battle between the Welsh and the Mercians -- more than five centuries before any record of its military use in England..."
(per TheMiddleAges.net)
"..."Henry (V of England) dealt a crippling blow to that nation (France) at the battle of Agincourt ... England with her fierce Welsh bowman, seemed an unstoppable force..."
(per The Highlander Magazine, May-Jun 09)
"...The longbow was first recorded as being used by the Welsh in 633 C.E., when Offrid, the son of Edwin, king of Northumbria, was killed by an arrow shot from a Welsh longbow during a battle between the Welsh and the Mercians -- more than five centuries before any record of its military use in England..."
(per TheMiddleAges.net)
"..."Henry (V of England) dealt a crippling blow to that nation (France) at the battle of Agincourt ... England with her fierce Welsh bowman, seemed an unstoppable force..."
(per The Highlander Magazine, May-Jun 09)