re: #498 ryannon

Point of information: the longbow was an English arm and invention.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

They continually creamed the French with it. One would think that it would have immediately been copied by the French, but apparently not.

French society was too dominated by the Knightly aristocracy to consider the longbow. The nobles did not want to surrender any of their power to commoners, and that attitude got a lot of them killied/