English Longbowmen

Price: $50.00
Retired

BF-9-C

Consignment

This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in very good condition.

Banners Forward BF-9 English Longbowmen

Made in conjunction with Alymer of Spain

54mm Painted Metal Miniature

For nearly fifty years prior to Crecy, the common man in England has been encouraged through land laws and contests to practice with a longbow.
This turned out to be the deciding factor at the battle of Crecy, where longbowmen virtually neutralized the French army that outnumbered them greatly. A good longbowmen could have an arrow hitting target - one in the air - and be releasing a third one, causing a raining effect of death upon the packed masses of French approaching them. One hundred of them had the effect of 200-300 crossbowmen. The French learned to fear these longbowmen to the point that whenever one was captured in other engagements, before and after, the normal treatment was to cut off his index and middle fingers of the right hand, to cripple his ability to notch an arrow. Legend has it, that this created the origin of the "V" for victory sign of Churchill. As longbowmen would approach the enemy they would hold up the "V" sign as a taunt that they were uncrippled and able to fight at their best.