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Weapons that Made Britain: Armour (Part 8)

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Uploaded by on May 1, 2010

Historian Mike Loades shows the history behind the weapons that helped to forge Britain, as well as demonstrating their use.

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  • the second shot was probably done only to make that blacksmith happy :P

  • English army of Hundred Years War - greatest army ever

  • Does anyone make a reproduction of that poleaxe? It's beautiful.

  • @cardinal1chunder Why does people not dying merit an unhappy face?

  • Yep one of the few battles were the french chose the ground, strange considering England was the offensive party for most of the HYW. Great documentary but fails to mention the several thousand Scots also present on the French side. They fought the hardest and died almost to the last man, long after the French had fled. Not a bad day for England, French, Scots and Italians slaughtered in there hundreds hand to hand. The HYW kind of goes down hill after that though :(

  • Another difference in this battle was that the French chose good ground for a charge. At Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, they were charging uphill, and/or on muddy ground, and/or in too narrow a front, so that they were crowded together into a perfect mass target for volleys of arrows. (And keep in mind that the arrows will be coming down at an angle, not straight-on.)

  • Those arrowproof Lombard knights are the equivalent of a modern tank like the M1 or the Challeger.

  • @CrimsonEmpire of course that makes sense. But they just make it look like all of the horsemen were the highest noblement, all equipped with the best possible stuff, which is unlikely, there are always differences in quality. And it is rather stupid to make it look like that every single of these knights was invulnerable to any weapon or projectile and that none of them died or so. That's just ridiculous. Othe than that, I find this series rather good. (Exept for some more missing details)

  • @NICKarrowman It only makes sense though that a knight with the highest quality armor and who was in the business of cavalry charges into archer fire would put two and two together and know that his horse would need it too. People weren't stupid back then.

  • @rapid287 To my knowledge they tended to have a strap about half way along the foot between the heel and the ball of the foot, and the front half was left to flap about, but its articulation would only let it flex the wrong way so far of course. I'm not sure if that applies to all of them, but from what I've seen that tends to be the case.

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