The armour on the horses was weaker on the sides and back, so the archers moved to the sides of the cavalry and shot the horses in the flanks.

The Dauphin attacked Salisbury and pressed his advance in spite of heavy shot by the English archers and complications of running into the retreating vanguard of Clermont's force.

Formations with a central core of pikes and bills were flanked by companies of " shot " made up of a mixture of archers and arquebusiers, sometimes with a skirmish screen of archers and arquebusiers in front.

Arrow loops were vertical slits in the wall where archers from the inside shot arrows through at the attackers, but they made it extremely difficult for attackers to get many arrows through back at the defenders.

Norman archers shot several volleys but many of the arrows hit the shield wall and had very little effect.

Eventually they captured King Edmund and had him shot by archers and beheaded.

However, the Yorkist archers and artillery showered the Lancastrians with arrows and shot.

Gríma was then shot down by Hobbit archers as he tried to flee.

* Arrowheads shot by Babylonian archers 2, 500 years ago, and others launched by Roman siege machinery 500 years later.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used — Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around 288 AD ; King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and shot dead by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870 AD.

Kyudo archers usually shoot two ya per round, with the haya being shot first.

The archers then move in lock-step fashion through the hassetsu, each archer standing and shooting one after another at the respective targets, kneeling between each shot, until they have exhausted their supply of arrows ( generally four ).

Once all the archers have shot, the archer will then pick up the second pair of arrows at his feet and repeat the process, starting with the second flight's haya.

During normal competition, this process is done with the archers standing, however, the complete shooting procedure includes having the archer kneel in kiza while waiting between each shot.

The Emperor fell in love with the young Philomena and, when she refused to be his wife, subjected her to a series of torments: scourging, from whose effects two angels cured her ; drowning with an anchor attached to her ( two angels cut the rope and raised her to the river bank ); being shot with arrows, ( on the first occasion her wounds were healed ; on the second, the arrows turned aside ; and on the third, they returned and killed six of the archers, after which, several of the others became Christians ).

* 1471-Battle of Barnet: The ‘ radiant star ’ battle standard used by the troops commanded by the Earl of Oxford was misidentified as an enemy standard ( which depicted a ‘ brilliant sun ’) and resulted in them being shot at by their own archers.

" And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin ," leaving him there for dead.

As Shu soldiers rushed towards the Yangtze River for water to put out the fires, Wu archers lying in ambush shot them down.

These archers then shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round, with these scores being used to drop more archers.

In this round archers shot one-fourth the number of arrows normal for a FITA round with the top 18 advancing to the quarterfinals.

In the first round the archers shot a single FITA round with the top 12 teams advancing to the semifinal.

Javelin throwers and archers shot from each ship, but the Syracusans deflected Athenian grappling hooks by covering their decks with animal hides.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

Abgar IX, King of Osroene but essentially only the ruler of Edessa since the annexation of his kingdom as a Roman province, handed over his children as hostages and assisted Severus ' expedition by providing archers.

* King Edward III and the prince sailed for France from Sandwich with 400 ships carrying 4, 000 men at arms and 10, 000 archers, but after six weeks of bad weather and being blown off course, they were driven back to England.

King Henry III of England banned the playing of the game by his archers, and in the 14th century, Charles IV and Charles V of France also forbade the sport to commoners.

The King had besieged Leeds after she had refused Edward's consort Isabella of France admittance in her husband's absence ; when the latter had sought to force an entry, Lady Badlesmere had instructed her archers to fire upon the Queen and her party, six of whom were killed.

Besides the usual Roman troops and auxiliary units that would appear in any Roman army Flamininus's forces also included soldiers from the allied Aetolian League, light infantry from Athamania, mercenary archers from Crete, and elephants and Numidian cavalry from King Masinissa of Numidia.

Furthermore, Esplandian could be his infamous warrior son, Guy de Montfort, count of Mola, Brian de Monjaste is in fact Enrique of Castile himself, and the battle against the Arabic king is the Battle of Benevento against King Manfred of Sicily, who had a host of Arabian light cavalry and Arab archers.

Robin ( Russell Crowe ) and his companions intend to return to England from France by boat to Gravesend, after they flee the army of King Richard I, at whose death in battle they were present as archers.

He brought a large contingent of soldiers and archers to King Richard's Scottish campaign of 1385.

Served in the personal bodyguard of King Richard II as members of Cheshire's elite archers of The White Hart in 1367.

Served in the personal bodyguard of King Richard II as members of Cheshire's elite archers of The White Hart in 1367.

By 1405 King Henry IV of England had regained the castle and garrisoned it with a new force of thirty men-at-arms and one hundred and fifty archers under the command of Richard, Lord Grey.

In 307 BC, King Wuling of Zhao ordered the adoption of nomadic clothing in order to train his own division of cavalry archers.

For instance, Agesilaus said that he had been driven out of Asia by thirty thousand archers, referring to the bribe distributed by the Persian King.

In 1335 when King Edward III and Baliol had made another attack upon the Scots, the Earl cut off a body of archers on their return southward, and afterwards assisted John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray in defeating the Count of Namur at the Battle of Boroughmuir close to Edinburgh.

Sir Thomas Erpingham KG (– 1428 ) was an English knight who became famous as the commander of King Henry V's archers at the Battle of Agincourt.

; Isp, Osp and Mosp / Mospinispinosp / Asp, Asp and Amospia: Initially named " Asp " and " Asp ," Isp and Osp were two snake-like archers serving under the Demon King in the hostile takeover of what would become the Dimension of Pain.

() The Book of gives a lengthier account and states that Josiah was fatally wounded by Egyptian archers and was brought back to Jerusalem to die.

* Corbulo marched to Artaxata crossing the Aras River, along the valley he is shadowed by tens of thousands of mounted Parthian archers led by king Tiridates I.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

24 AD ), who was born in Pontus on the Black Sea, but was also working with Persian sources, to judge from the forms he gives to tribal names, mentions Aorsi that he links with Siraces and claims that a Spadines, king of the Aorsi, could assemble two hundred thousand mounted archers in the mid-1st century BC.

Reliefs discovered in the ancient ruins of Nimrud ( the ancient Assyrian city founded by king Shalmaneser I during the 13th century BC ) depict for the first time riders wearing plated-mail shirts composed of metal scales, presumably deployed to provide the Assyrians with a tactical advantage over the unprotected mounted archers of their nomadic enemies, primarily the Aramaeans, Mushki, North Arabian tribes and the Babylonians.

Went to Ireland in 1168, being sent with ten knights, twenty esquires, and one hundred archers, to assist Dermot MacMurrough, king of Leinster.

In July 1338, he accompanied the king on another mission to the continent, again providing the greatest number of soldiers, with 123 men-at-arms and 50 archers.

The issue was apparently quiet for a few years, but from 1397 Richard issued increasingly large numbers of badges to retainers who misbehaved ( his " Cheshire archers " being especially notorious ), and in the Parliament of 1399, after his deposition, several of his leading supporters were forbidden from issuing " badges of signes " again, and a statute was passed allowing only the king ( now Henry IV ) to issue badges, and only to those ranking as esquires and above, who were only to wear them in his presence.

He, rather than the Earl of Westmoreland, as in Shakespeare's ' Henry V ,' seems to have been the officer who expressed, on the eve of Agincourt, regret that the English had not ten thousand archers, and drew from the king a famous rebuke.

And he ordained that the Earl of Huntingdon should keep the fleet of ships with a hundred men of arms and four hundred archers: and also he ordained three battles ( battalions ), one to go on his right hand, closing to the sea-side, and the other on his left hand, and the king himself in the midst, and every night to lodge all in one field.

After the Black Death had passed and England was able to recover financially, Edward's son, Edward the Black Prince, invaded France from Gascony in 1356, winning a great victory in the Battle of Poitiers, where the English archers repeated the same tactics used at Crécy, and the Gascon noble Captal de Buch led a flanking movement that succeeded in capturing the new king, John II of France, and many of his nobles.

The issue was apparently quiet for a few years, but from 1397 Richard issued increasingly large numbers of badges to retainers who misbehaved ( his " Cheshire archers " being especially notorious ), and in the Parliament of 1399, after his deposition, several of his leading supporters were forbidden from issuing " badges of signes " again, and a statute was passed allowing only the king ( now Henry IV ) to issue badges, and only to those ranking as esquires and above, who were only to wear them in his presence.

The next year he served with the king in France, bringing into the field twelve men-at-arms and thirty-seven archers, and was present at the Battle of Agincourt.