>What I have heard is that longbows loose their power in -hot- weather.
>This would explain why English crusaders don't seem to have taken
>longbowmen with them - Richard Lionheart's tactics against mounted archers
>relied on crossbowmen.
The English Crusaders didn't have any longbowmen to take. The first English army to use longbowmen was in 1297 and they were Welshmen. It was during the 14th Century that English Yeomen were at first encouraged and then required to train as archers.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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