Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 140
... foot , especially archers who could be recruited in South Wales became well understood . Nor were special conditions needed to ensure the use of infantry elsewhere . Dismounted troops , with the field commander on foot among them , were ...
... foot , especially archers who could be recruited in South Wales became well understood . Nor were special conditions needed to ensure the use of infantry elsewhere . Dismounted troops , with the field commander on foot among them , were ...
Page 148
... foot . The Scots were drawn up in four large and compact divisions - called ' schiltrons ' - of spearmen who fought on foot . Between the schiltrons were their supporting archers , and to the rear a body of horse . The English , also in ...
... foot . The Scots were drawn up in four large and compact divisions - called ' schiltrons ' - of spearmen who fought on foot . Between the schiltrons were their supporting archers , and to the rear a body of horse . The English , also in ...
Page 156
... foot , awaited attack in a position of which the defensive strength was in creased by the hedgerows and broken ground . The French king , in more effective control of his army than his father had been at Crécy , dismounted the main part ...
... foot , awaited attack in a position of which the defensive strength was in creased by the hedgerows and broken ground . The French king , in more effective control of his army than his father had been at Crécy , dismounted the main part ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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