The Longbow's Influcence on English Military

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The longbow was very crucial to the English military. In this paper I will tell people about the English longbow and how dominant it was it their military. One will be surprised by the dominance of the longbow. I will tell one about wars, power, and draw a weight.

The draw weight of the longbow was eighty pounds. That is a lot of weight. Soldiers hated the draw weight of the bow because they couldn’t pull back on it and thought they might get killed easier if they tried to pull back on it (longbowdynasty.org). King Edward I thought that if the bow had a great draw weight on it the soldiers might get stronger while there fighting. Another reason is soldiers could pull back on the bow and release quickly and kill people faster. This hypothesis proved to be true as the English soldiers did fire more quickly causing the opponent to die faster (historylearningsite.org). As soldiers used the bow more often they did get stronger and could draw the bow easier than they could when they first started using it. Soldiers preferred the longbow over the crossbow because the crossbow had a draw weight of 120 pounds. That is a significant amount of weight compared to eighty pounds (militaryhistory.org).

The arrows used in shooting the longbow were the long and short bodkins. The long bodkin was about four inches tall and three inches wide. These were used for piercing through mail. The long bodkins were not used often because they were expensive to make at around four American dollars to make. Soldiers carried around about 8 of these arrows. The short bodkins were about two inches tall and an inch wide. These arrows were used all the time and were used for piercing through plate armor. These were far less expensive at around four American ce...

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...ongbow in three pages. I hope one learns a lot from this paper and I hope I gave one the information one needs. As you can see the longbow was very dominant when people used it right and didn’t take it that one cant not just think one has won before its over.

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