Word: longbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harfleur, then tried to withdraw his exhausted and vastly outnumbered army to Calais (see map). The French confronted him at Agincourt. In one of Shakespeare's most stirring verbal sennets, Henry urged his soldiers on to incredible victory. English mobility (unarmored archers) and English firepower (the quick-shooting longbow) proved too much for the heavily armored French...
...Battle of Crécy (1346) was notable for the introduction of two "secret" weapons by the British-gunpowder (which fizzled) and the longbow, with which the British put the armored French knights to rout. Nevertheless, the Hundred Years War dragged on into the next century without decisive result...