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Re: Ireland, Scottland, and Freedom
Posted By: Olorin (host213-122-15-72.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: 9/29/2002 at 5:07 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Ireland, Scottland, and Freedom (Seraph)
: There's a problem though if they were merely conscripts.
: It takes years of training to make a truely skilled
: longbowman.
: I have a hard time immagining peasants conscripted from
: the fields and such picking up bows and becoming the
: legendary skilled longbowmen who could (with
: protection of spearmen or stakes in the ground or
: something) destroy formations of heavily armored
: knights.
: Of course, after years of training their independant
: spirit might have been broken.
: Seraph
The feudal system did not support permanent armies, and there were far too many to be mercaneries (as well as the fact that mercenaries traditionally were used by Britain from mainland Europe when they were used)
. However, men were still expected to train frequently with arms (in fact, after Agincourt it became illegal not to practice archery every Sunday with a longbow once you were of a reasonable age (and were a man). Longbows are accurate weapons anyway, so it was the training that they carried out themsleves/their lords oversaw that made them great. Of course, there may have been some mercenaries too.
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