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•Covered in many layers of armor•The wealthiest of the three soldiers reason being it was very expensive to be a knight•Knight was like the modern tank
Knights
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Tactics for knights
Most of the time the knight rode on his war horse, while using a lance so he could gain momentum and charged at his opponent
Footmen
•Usually chosen from the peasant class
•Not well trained soldiers
•Main job-protect the archers
•Did this with a glaive (long spike pole)
•Wore a padded coat and used buckler shield for punching
Archers
• Important in open battles• Always used the deadly longbow• The least amount of armor out of
the three types of soldiers• Could shoot 15 arrows per min.• Also hide behind a movable shield
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Welsh Longbow
• Also known as the English longbow • Is about 6 feet tall• Rate of firing arrows up to 1 arrow for
every 5 seconds • Compared to the crossbow, which shoots
only 1 arrow for every 2 minutes and requires a winch to reload.
Tactics for Archers
Knight’s horse is particularly vulnerable to an arrow especially in the head, neck, or back. If an arrow brings down the horse, it will bring down the rider and pin the rider to the ground by the horse’s and armor’s weight.
William the Conqueror
• Born 1027• Son of the Robert Duke of
Normandy and Herleva of Falaise
• Nicknamed William the Bastard inherited in 1035
• Governed Normandy in 1045
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Edward The Black Prince• Birth- June 15, 1330 in Woodstock,
Oxfordshire, England• Edward III’s son of England• Nickname: The Black Prince from
his Black armor• Also called Edward of Woodstock,
Prince D’aquitaine, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester
• Fought in the battle of Crecy and Battle of Poitiers, which are both a part of the Hundred Years War
• Death- June 8, 1376 Westminster, close to London
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Henry V• Birth-Sept. 16, 1387,
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
• King of England from 1413 to 1422
• Fought in the Battle of Agincourt (battle part of the Hundred Years War)
• England became one of the strongest kingdoms in Europe due to King Henry V
• Death-Aug. 31, 1422, Bois de Vincennes, Fr.
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Battle of Hastings
• Occurred on October 14, 1066 on Senlac Hill
• Occurred because both William the Conqueror and Harold II of Wessex wanted to take the place of King Edward the Confessor
• Norman’s army about 7,000 - 50,000
• Anglo-Saxons had an army about 7,500
• Battle over in 9 hours with a victory for the Normans
• About 5,000 dead Anglo–Saxons and about 3,000 dead Normans
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Battle of Crecy
• Occurred on August 26th 1346 in Northern France• English-16,000 troops including longbow archers • French-estimated high to 80,000 troops included
6000 Genoese crossbow archers. • French’s estimated casualties include 11 princes,
1,200 knights, and 1200 soldiers, while the English’s casualties were a few hundred troops
• Marked the first used of Cannons
http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/crecy.htm
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Battle of Crecy
Battle of Agincourt
• Occurred October 25th, 1415 in Northern France
• English-5,000 troops • French-30,000 to high as 100,000 troops. • Downpour of rain soaked the plough land,
therefore flinging up mud. • Estimated the French suffers death of 6,000
to 10,000 troops, while the English suffers only losses in the hundreds.
MLA Format Citations:
"Battle of Crecy." 27 February 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. 28 Jan. 2009 <http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/battle-of-crecy.htm>
Cosman, Madeleine Pelner, and Linda Gale Jones. "warfare and weapons in the Middle Ages." Handbook to Life in the Medieval World. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2008. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. Klein High School, Klein, TX. 1 Feb. 2009<http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE49&iPin=HBLMW04&SingleRecord=True>
"Hundred Years' War." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009 . Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Klein High School, Klein, TX. 1 Jan. 2009 <http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9041532>.
“The Battle of Agincourt.” 2007. britishbattles.com 28 Jan. 2009 <http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/agincourt.htm>
“The Battle of Creςy 1346.” 2007. Britishbattles.com 28 Jan. 2009 <http://www.britishbattles.com/100-years-war/crecy.htm>
“THE WELSH / ENGLISH LONGBOW.” HUK 1 Feb. 2009 <http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/TheLongbow.htm >
“The Medieval Knight.” ThinkQuest. 2 Feb. 2009. < http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medknight.html >
“The Common Soldier.” ThinkQuest. 7 Feb. 2009 .< http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medsoldier.html >
"Edward The Black Prince." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Klein High School, Klein, TX. 11 Feb. 2009 <httpHYPERLINK "http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9032036"://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9032036>.
"Henry V." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Klein High School, Klein, TX. 11 Feb. 2009 <http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9040023>.
“The battle of Hastings”. Essortment. 11 Feb 2009. <http://www.essortment.com/all/thebattleof_rvds.htm>
Book MLA Format Citation:
Grant, R. G. BATTLE: A VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH 5,000 YEARS OF COMBAT. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2005. (pg.107)
John Simkin. “William the Conqueror”. Spartacus. 11 Feb. 2009. < www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDwilliam1.htm >
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