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The fact that the hand-gun could be used by the horse-soldier,
whilst the longbow could not be thus employed, was the chief argument against
the revival of the bow.
There is no doubt, that our Continental enemies, after their experience
of the longbow at Crecy in 1346, held it to be a fearfully destructive
weapon. They, in fact, had little knowledge before that battle of its greatly
superior power and accuracy in open warfare to all other missive arms of
the period, such as, for instance, the crossbow
with a composite, or a light steel, bow.
Fig. 16. - Mounted Crossbowman.
Though the French sometimes carried the longbow
in the chase, they never succeeded in mastering it as a weapon of war,
despite strenuous efforts to do so. After Crecy, the French endeavoured
to introduce it into their armies, with a view to combating the English
with their own weapon, any soldier who excelled in its use being highly
rewarded. The French, however, came to the conclusion that they could never
handle the longbow as did the English, and, for this reason, they returned
to the crossbow as their favourite arm. Pere Daniel writes, ' The French
King did manifestly see that neither his nor any other people could attain
to shoot so strong, and. with that dexterity and excellence which the English
bowmen did, whereby, and seeing that English archery was a very peculiar
gift of God, they left off the practice and use of the longbow .' 1
At the time of Crecy, the armour worn by the knights was not designed
1Pere Daniel, Superior of the Jesuits at Paris,
French historian, born 1649, died 1728.
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