By Clive Bartlett, Gerry Embleton
Книга Osprey - Warrior №11. English Longbowman 1330-1515. Osprey - Warrior №11. English Longbowman 1330-1515. Книги Вооружение Автор: Clive Bartlett Год издания: 1995 Формат: pdf Издат.:Osprey Страниц: fifty four Размер: 41.4 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:The English army ascendancy which lasted from the mid-14th to the early fifteenth century was once based upon protective strategies in accordance with using the longbow. This weapon, detailed in that it used to be utilized by English forces on my own, was once the most potent missile weapon of the past due heart a long time: its arrow had an analogous penetrative skill as a latest day bullet and the bow's price of fireplace was once no longer equalled via any weapon utilized by English forces till the adoption of the Lee Enfield rifle firstly of the twentieth century.
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This reference is reminiscent of a photograph from a private collection that appears in Saracen Archery (Latham & Paterson 1970: 136) of a pair of gold finger-tips that are purported to be Phoenician from the 5th century BC. Whatever the truth regarding the use of these idiosyncratic thimbles and other lesser known systems, there can be little doubt that some form of thumb-release was the norm for most users of the composite bow throughout history. There are advantages to using the thumb to draw, whether with leather tab, glove or solid thumb-ring.
There is an account of the Pharaoh Amenhotep II (r. 1427–1401 BC) shooting arrows at a copper ingot target from his galloping chariot: he entered into his northern garden and found that there had been set up for him four targets of Asiatic copper of one palm in their thickness, with 20 cubits between one post and its fellow. Then His Majesty appeared in a chariot like Montu [the Egyptian god of war] in his power. He grasped his bow and gripped four arrows at the same time. So he rode northward, shooting at them ...
By all, always in one course. Then they ran with their arrows only, shooting the first at Javelins, usually in a case of three, were commonly carried by Turkish, Persian and Mamluk horse-archers as additional the first mark, and taking another smartly shot at the mast, missiles and, although not a feature of the display that Harborne and then did the same at the last mark, always at full speed, witnessed, aptitude with the lance was almost always a part of the and returned to do the same feats with the left hand.