- who
shoots a crossbow. An
extensive list of
archaic words for
medieval crossbowmen is
given by Payne-Gallwey. Richardson, in his 1839 dictionary, did not...
- The
Genoese crossbowmen (Italian:
Balestrieri genovesi) were a
famous military corps of the
Middle Ages,
which acted both in
defense of the
Republic of...
- attacked.
During a
brief archery duel a
large force of
French mercenary crossbowmen was
routed by
Welsh and
English longbowmen. The
French then launched...
-
Often large enough to
cover the
entire body, it was used by archers,
crossbowmen, and
other infantry soldiers on the
battlefield as
primarily stationary...
- The
Master of
Crossbowmen (French: Maître des Arbalétriers) or more precisely,
Master of
Arbalesters or
Master of
Archers was the
title of a commander...
-
maintain than
knights with all
their trappings, such as the
renowned crossbowmen in
Richard I's
crusading mesnée in the late 12th century.
Siege warfare...
- ****ault
included two
units of
heavily armoured cavalry, a
strong force of
crossbowmen as well as many
infantry and
dismounted men-at-arms. They were driven...
-
roughly equal to that of the wall or
sometimes higher to
allow archers or
crossbowmen to
stand on top of the
tower and
shoot arrows or
quarrels into the fortification...
- the Han dynasty, when
armies were
composed of up to 30 to 50
percent crossbowmen. The
crossbow lost much of its po****rity
after the fall of the Han dynasty...
-
Banquet of the
Amsterdam Civic Guard in
Celebration of the
Peace of Münster (1648) is a
group portrait oil
painting by the
Dutch painter Bartholomeus van...
