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How Did Armies Keep Archers Supplied With Arrows While Fighting?
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| July 27, 2015
| By Stephen Tempest
Posted on 07/30/2015 11:19:03 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
If they had all been liberals, then the arrows and barbs would have been unlimited.
ba dum pish
To: Brad from Tennessee
I read a story in Scientific American - it must have been more than thirty years ago - about archeological evidence surrounding the manufacture of arrows in feudal Europe.
The authors advanced the argument that arrows were the first manufactured article that was produced on an assembly line.
They said there were arrow factories having production in the millions of units.
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:23:51 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The military-industrial complex...
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:23:52 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Brad from Tennessee
I’ve often wondered where the American Indians got all their arrows.................
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:24:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Any idea how many arrows were used at Agincourt? I read that they archers there would go among the French dead and gather their previously fired arrows after each French fallback.
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07/30/2015 11:24:42 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Just gather up and shoot the enemy’s arrows back at him.
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07/30/2015 11:25:42 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: 2banana
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:25:45 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: 2banana
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:26:37 AM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: Brad from Tennessee
They used to be adventurers, just like you, then then they took an arrow in the knee.
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:26:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rfreedom4u
after each French fallbackThat would have been a lot of arrows...
To: Brad from Tennessee
To: Brad from Tennessee
They didn’t pull them out and reuse them like Daryl does?
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:27:42 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: rfreedom4u
[I read that they archers there would go among the French dead and gather their previously fired arrows after each French fallback.]
Makes sense. The article mentions retrieving arrows from the field after the fight is over.
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07/30/2015 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Red Badger
"Ive often wondered where the American Indians got all their arrows................."
At the trading post where else?
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:29:22 AM PDT
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mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Brad from Tennessee
We simply don’t understand how good ancient archers were. We are now relearning their secrets. This Dane is making it happen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g
He’s the best “real combat” archer in the world.
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:30:22 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
“Longbowmen might be issued with three sheaves of 24 arrows “
Coincidentally (?), in the video game Skyrim, arrows are crafted in lots of 24.
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07/30/2015 11:31:34 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Voting is acting white.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:32:06 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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07/30/2015 11:32:28 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Arrows are recyclable. Shoot them back.
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:33:33 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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