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  2. English longbow - Wikipedia

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    The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of bow, about 6 ft (1.8 m) long. While it is debated whether it originated in England or in Wales from the Welsh bow , by the 14th century the longbow was being used by both the English and the Welsh as a weapon of war and for hunting.

  3. Longbow - Wikipedia

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    According to the British Longbow Society, the English longbow is made so that its thickness is at least 5 ⁄ 8 (62.5%) of its width, as in Victorian longbows, and is widest at the grip. [13] A similar, more inclusive, definition was created by the International Longbow Archers Association (ILAA) which defined the bow as fitting within a ...

  4. Battle of Crécy - Wikipedia

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    This secured an English entrepôt into northern France which was held for two hundred years. [173] The battle established the effectiveness of the longbow as a dominant weapon on the Western European battlefield. [95] English and Welsh archers served as mercenaries in Italy in significant numbers, and some as far afield as Hungary. [174]

  5. Yeoman archer - Wikipedia

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    English archers are shown with the legendary longbow, while the Italian mercenaries struggle with their crossbows. The Yeoman Archer is a term applied specifically to English and Welsh military longbow archers (either mounted or on foot) of the 14th-15th centuries.

  6. Worshipful Company of Bowyers - Wikipedia

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    The company motto is Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, a reference to the Battle of Crécy, the Battle of Poitiers, and the Battle of Agincourt, all battles between medieval England and France in the Hundred Years' War in which longbows and English longbows were used to great effect by English and Welsh archers, before artillery took over towards the ...

  7. Weapons and armour in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    In Old English, the bow was known as a boga. [73] In neighbouring regions of continental Europe with different soil types, archery equipment are more common finds. Around forty bow staves and various arrows were uncovered at Nydam Mose in Denmark, dating to the third or fourth century CE.

  8. Battle of Shrewsbury - Wikipedia

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    The battle, the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil, reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow and ended the Percy challenge to King Henry IV of England. [1] Part of the fighting is believed to have taken place at what is now Battlefield, Shropshire, England, three miles (5 km) north of the centre of Shrewsbury. [1]

  9. Longbow (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A longbow is an archery weapon that uses elasticity to propel arrows. Longbow may also refer to: English longbow, a particularly powerful longbow used by the medieval English and Welsh; AH-64D Apache Longbow, an attack helicopter AN/APG-78 Longbow, a fire-control radar used by the Apache Longbow; The AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire, an air-to-ground ...

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