When did the English start using and winning battles with the longbow, and why did it not catch on with the French?
Also, a powerful English longbow appears to have a longer range than most muskets, even in the Napoleonic era. Did anyone think to bring it back and batter the French with it hundreds of years later when they wore almost no armour?
Hi Dan, one thing i wondered when i was at school was how did the soldiers/crusaders actually get on on a daily basis for food and accommodation for men and horses while travelling? they couldnt practiclaly take a field kitchen and staff and without speaking the local language how did they get there ready for battle?
Why do the Brits and the French hate each other? I mean, I hate the French too, but they had far more wars with Austria than Britain, but Austrian-French hatred is not memed in the same way. So what gives?
I first heard about the Knights Templar while playing Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars in the late 90s and with reading the Da Vinci code and watching the Documentary Da vinci code decoded I have been facinated every since. Could you maybe recommend any Documentaries or books (obviously apart from your own , as i have them already) that you yourself have found interesting? Thanks.
There is a meme that people, mostly men, are obsessed with the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Should we instead spend more time examining the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire that survived well into the Middle Ages? What did it do right to survive for roughly 1,000 years more? Was their attempt to restore the Western Roman Empire always doomed to fail, or could they have been successful if they had adopted a different strategy? Etc.
Which is the single most iconic and important battle for each side of the Hundred Years war, and if you could've witnessed only one, which would it be, and why?
Do you think the ancient clan feuds between "the Norsemen" during their centuries and centuries of rapacious raidings of all Europe the British Isles and beyond; are a lesser debated connection to the root enmities and territorial claims that the "world of the Plantagenets" and their 100yrs war inhabit?
Can you give examples where the outcomes of specific campaigns were decided by supply and logistical constraints? We hear a lot about this as an issue in modern warfare, but mainstream histories which aren't specialist don't seem to cover this issue as much.
When did the English start using and winning battles with the longbow, and why did it not catch on with the French?
Also, a powerful English longbow appears to have a longer range than most muskets, even in the Napoleonic era. Did anyone think to bring it back and batter the French with it hundreds of years later when they wore almost no armour?
Good question. I was going to ask a question about the weapons and armour arms race. You beat me to it.
Should Uk have demanded our Plantagenet lands back after saving France in WW2 ?
Hi Dan, one thing i wondered when i was at school was how did the soldiers/crusaders actually get on on a daily basis for food and accommodation for men and horses while travelling? they couldnt practiclaly take a field kitchen and staff and without speaking the local language how did they get there ready for battle?
Why do the Brits and the French hate each other? I mean, I hate the French too, but they had far more wars with Austria than Britain, but Austrian-French hatred is not memed in the same way. So what gives?
What is one way in which medieval people had better then we do today?
Is Eleanor of Acquataine over-rated by modern feminist historians?
Would Henry Vs star power have cancelled out that of Joan of Arcs had he not died?
I first heard about the Knights Templar while playing Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars in the late 90s and with reading the Da Vinci code and watching the Documentary Da vinci code decoded I have been facinated every since. Could you maybe recommend any Documentaries or books (obviously apart from your own , as i have them already) that you yourself have found interesting? Thanks.
There is a meme that people, mostly men, are obsessed with the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Should we instead spend more time examining the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire that survived well into the Middle Ages? What did it do right to survive for roughly 1,000 years more? Was their attempt to restore the Western Roman Empire always doomed to fail, or could they have been successful if they had adopted a different strategy? Etc.
Which is the single most iconic and important battle for each side of the Hundred Years war, and if you could've witnessed only one, which would it be, and why?
How much were common soldiers paid during the war, or was the promise of loot their only potential reward?
FOOD AND DRINK
What did the armies eat?
We know they nicked food as they were going along, but what were the foodstuffs they nicked?
How well or poorly fed were they?
Do you think the ancient clan feuds between "the Norsemen" during their centuries and centuries of rapacious raidings of all Europe the British Isles and beyond; are a lesser debated connection to the root enmities and territorial claims that the "world of the Plantagenets" and their 100yrs war inhabit?
Can you give examples where the outcomes of specific campaigns were decided by supply and logistical constraints? We hear a lot about this as an issue in modern warfare, but mainstream histories which aren't specialist don't seem to cover this issue as much.
We know that Henry V fought at Agincourt. What kind of fighter would he have been and how much action would he have seen?
What would Western Europe have looked like if he had not died young?
Hello Dan,
Thank you for taking our questions.
Do you think, since the United States is the only REAL Navy remaining, they might also start employing Letters of Marque in the Americas or elsewhere?
Can the west revert back to privateering in this new age of State Craft for economic and military supremacy and stability? 🏴☠️ 🔱