Re: [RC] Top five endurance horses-appys - Ed & Wendy Hauser
If I remember my Medieval history properly, these
type of actions were very effective against the peasant foot soldiers. The
peasants usually ran away. Part of the reason Henry of England was
able to win at Agincourt was that he had trained his peasant Pikemen how to
protect the longbowmen while they showered the noble knights with arrows.
The Pikemen were trained to use the pikes on the horses. By the way, there
were recent History Channel presentations on both Agincourt and Crece.
Recent research would indicate that the battles were more complicated than most
history books indicate, but I digress into things not endurance
related.
Before this time, partly because horses were so
valuable, it was considered unsportsmanlike to try to kill a war horse.
There would always be a peasant back home to replace those trampled by the noble
knights, but horses were hard to come by.
Ed
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