Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Warfare through time
1250-1500
- Weapons
- Lances
- Sword
- Spears
- Crossbows
- Longbows
- Recruitment and training
- Feudal system
- Landowners give men to serve
- 40 days
- Broke down when disagreements on demand
- Mercenaries
- Paid soldiers
- Army increased so paying soldiers became main method
- Assize of arms
- The wealthy had to provide more ie horses/weapons
- As feudal system stopped every man had to bring bow, arrows, sword dagger
- Men selected fought for 40 days
- Tactics
- Increased use of longbows
- Decline of the mounted knights
- Increase size of army
- Composition of the army
- Cavalry (knights)
- Infantry
-spear men
-crossbow
-hand to hand combat
- 9000 -26000 men
- Battle of Falkirk
- Recruitment and training
- Weapons
- Swords
- Daggers
- Longbows
- Crossbows
- Tactics
- Scottish used shiltrons but failed
- Choice of position didn’t protect flanks
- Use of longbows
- Composition of the army
- 2000 Calvary, 500 crossbow, 12,000 infantry
- Civilians
- Military burnt down, looted and destroyed towns
- Suffered violence, loss of homes, crops and livestock
- Battle of Agincourt
- Recruitment and training
- All English sign indentures (contract)
- King promised payment, then jewels, never paid
- Tactics
- English longbow attack
- French dismounted attack (struggled because of terrain)
- Weapons
- Cannons
- Longbow men
- Swords
- Daggers
- Composition of the army
- Dominated by longbow men
- English outnumbered 6-1
- Narrow battlefield
- Civilians
- Ordered men to not loot beyond need