The English longbow proved its worth for the first time in Continental warfare at the Battle of Crécy.

The English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, is a powerful type of medieval longbow ( a tall bow for archery ) about 6 ft ( 1. 83 m ) long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare.

The term " English " or " Welsh " longbow is a modern usage to distinguish these bows from other longbows, though in fact identical bows were used across northern and western Europe ; indeed a very large proportion of yew bowstaves were imported from Spain from the fourteenth century onward, if not earlier.

A wide variety of arrows were shot from the English longbow.

Although the draw weight of a typical English longbow is disputed, it was at least and possibly more than, with some estimates as high as.

The origins of the English longbow are disputed.

Strickland and Hardy in 2005 took this argument further, suggesting that the shortbow was a myth and all early English bows were a form of longbow.

What is agreed, however, is that the English longbow as an effective weapon system evolved in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

The longbow decided many medieval battles fought by the English, the most significant of which were the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ) and the Battle of Agincourt ( 1415 ), during the Hundred Years ' War and followed earlier successes, notably at the Battle of Halidon Hill ( 1333 ) during the Scottish wars.

The longbow was also used against the English by their Welsh neighbours.

The Welsh used the longbow mostly in a different manner than the English.

In many early period English campaigns, the Welsh used the longbow in ambushes, often at point blank range that allowed their missiles to penetrate armour and generally do a lot of damage.

One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when Owain Glyndŵr fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas.

Before the English Civil War, a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that soldiers be trained in both the longbow and pike ; this advice was followed only by a few town militias.

The idea that there was a standard formation for English longbow armies was argued by Alfred Byrne in his influential work on the battles of the Hundred Years ' War, The Crecy War.

* The second dates to the Battle of Flodden in 1513 (" a landmark in the history of archery, as the last battle on English soil to be fought with the longbow as the principal weapon ...").

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is conjectured that yew trees were commonly planted in English churchyards to have readily available longbow wood.

The Welsh & English longbowman used a single-piece longbow ( but some bows later developed a composite design ) to deliver arrows that could penetrate contemporary plate armour and mail.

It is located 15 miles ( 24 km ) west of Monmouth on the A40 and A465 roads, 6 miles ( 10 km ) from the English border.

Villeroi, posting himself near Offus, watched anxiously the redcoats ' advance, mindful of the counsel he had received on 6 May from Louis XIV – " Have particular care to that part of the line which will endure the first shock of the English troops.

* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.

11. 0 % were of Irish, 7. 2 % English, 6. 9 % Italian, 5. 5 % West Indian and 5. 3 % German ancestry according to Census 2000.

69. 4 % spoke English, 6. 9 % Spanish, 3. 2 % Chinese or Mandarin, 3. 0 % Portuguese, 2. 9 % French Creole, 2. 3 % French, 1. 5 % Korean, and 1. 0 % Italian as their first language.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Ford Madox Brown ( 16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893 ) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.

( שבעה דברים בגולם ) Pirkei Avot 5: 6 in the Hebrew text ( English translations vary ).

English gold coins intended for circulation from 1526 into the 1930s were typically a standard 22k alloy called crown gold, for hardness ( American gold coins for circulation after 1837 contained the slightly lower amount of 0. 900 fine gold, or 21. 6 kt ).

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

This last phrase ( from 1 Timothy 6: 20 ) is the origin of the title of the book by Irenaeus, On the Detection and Overthrow of False Knowledge, that contains the adjective gnostikos, which is the source for the 17th Century English term " Gnosticism.

The Pakistani textbook " Primary Stage English " includes lessons such as " Pakistan My Country ", " Our Flag ", or " Our Great Leader " ( Malik 1993: 5, 6, 7 ) which might well sound jingoistic to Western ears.

The entropy rate of English text is between 1. 0 and 1. 5 bits per letter, or as low as 0. 6 to 1. 3 bits per letter, according to estimates by Shannon based on human experiments.

The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6, 400 species.

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

English and Portuguese are spoken as a first language by 1. 5 % and 0. 6 % respectively.

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

The study of English and European artifacts in general has revealed that projectiles were made with a widely variable number of microliths: in Tværmose there was only one, in Loshult there were two ( one for the tip and the other as a fin ), in White Hassocks, in West Yorkshire, more than 40 have been found together ; the average is between 6 and 18 pieces for each projectile.

La Trochita ( El Viejo Expreso Patagónico ), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a 750 mm ( 2 ft 5 1 ⁄ 2 in ) narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives.

Galdhøpiggen ( English: Galdhø Peak ) is the highest mountain in Norway, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, at 2, 469 m ( 8, 100 ft ) above sea level.

In 1931 a microwave relay link across the English Channel using 10 ft. ( 3 meter ) diameter dishes was demonstrated.

The English longbow – a simple but very powerful spring made of European Yew | yew, measuring 2 m ( 6 ft 6 in ) long, with a 470 N ( 105 pound-force | lbf ) draw force

The English taxonomist John Edward Gray first named the species Berardius hectori in 1871, based on a specimen ( a 2. 82 m ft male ) collected in Titahi Bay, New Zealand in January, 1866.

Mickledore ( the name means great door or pass ) is a narrow ridge, 840 metres ( 2755 ft ) high, connecting the mountains of Sca Fell and Scafell Pike in the English Lake District.

On 31 July 2003 an Austrian, Felix Baumgartner, jumping from 29, 360 ft ( 9 km ), successfully crossed the English Channel in 14 minutes using a wingpack, having covered over 35 km ( 21. 8 mi ).

* August 29 – A Royal Air Force English Electric Canberra sets a new world altitude record of 65, 876 ft ( 20, 079 m ).

* August 28-A rocket-boosted Royal Air Force English Electric Canberra sets a new world altitude record of 70, 308 ft ( 21, 430 m ).

His character is perhaps best indicated by an escapade whereby he led a group of Sea Scouts, without their parents ' consent ( they thought it was a weekend sailing camp ), across the English Channel and up the Seine to within a few kilometres of Paris in a 25 ft open boat.

Skiddaw Little Man also called Little Man is a fell in the English Lake District, it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick and reaches a height of 865 m ( 2, 837 ft ).

The name of the river probably comes from an Old English word meaning fast-flowing, since it descends over 100 m ( 328 ft ) in its initial four miles ( 6. 4 km ).

In 1966, whilst in the Army, Blyth, together with Captain John Ridgway, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20 ft open dory called English Rose III.

Yeats, a stockily-built 6 ft 2 in central defender, was bought by manager Bill Shankly in 1961 from United and was immediately installed as captain as Liverpool gained promotion from the Second Division after eight seasons away from English football's top flight.

The Royal Citadel was the most important English defence for over 100 years, with 70 ft high walls, and was regularly strengthened over the years, particularly during the 1750s when it was equipped with 113 guns.

One bomber left a 100 ft ( 30 m ) crater in British soil and another circled an English city out of control.

Early in 1999 the 6 ft 3 in defender was recruited by Gordon Strachan, manager of English Premiership side Coventry City for a fee of around £ 2million.

In contrast, hillwalkers have tended to regard mountains as peaks above sea level: the Oxford English Dictionary also suggests a limit of and Whittow states " Some authorities regard eminences above 600 m ( 2, 000 ft ) as mountains, those below being referred to as hills.

He weighs 11. 3 stone ( 72 kg ), is 6 ft 2in ( 188 cm ) and was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, although he speaks with a clipped English accent.

The world record dive stands at 90 m ( 300 ft ) set by an English Springer Spaniel.

English Mountain ( 3, 629 ft ), one of the highest of the Foothills, is the fifth most prominent mountain in Tennessee, and dominates the view south of Interstate 40 for a considerable stretch between Sevierville and Newport.

It is the eleventh highest English Marilyn, standing 807 metres ( 2, 648 ft ) high, and has a relative height of 362 metres ( 1, 187 ft ).