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Originally Posted by thunk Is this the reason why the Saracens didn't go on to rule the world - they were beated to death by their own julbahs? |
Interestingly, a 15th century French knight who wanted to restart the Crusades did some research into how English archers would have faired against the Saracens. He came to the conclusiom that the English archer would have come out on top for two reasons; the English arrows had far harder impact, the lighter Saracen arrows were less effective, he recorded one Knight coming off the battlefield with 15 arrows in his horse and 5 in him and they were both still in fighting trim. Also the Saracen bows had thicker strings than the English ,so that the English could at a pinch shoot the Saracen arrows back, but the Saracens couldn't shoot the English arrows, their knocks being too thin. His theories were never put to the test.