: A human nation with longbows, knights, witches and rabble-rousing bards, loosely based on Celtic mythology.

This prevented cavalry charges and slowed infantry long enough for the longbows to take a decisive toll on the enemy line.

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545.

Although longbows were much faster and more accurate than the black powder weapons which replaced them, longbowmen always took a long time to train because of the years of practice necessary before a war longbow could be used effectively ( examples of longbows from the Mary Rose typically had draws greater than ).

More than 3, 500 arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of Henry VIII's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545.

In 1980, before the finds from the Mary Rose, Robert E. Kaiser published a paper stating that there were five known surviving longbows:

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.

The earliest longbow known from England, found at Ashcott Heath, Somerset, is dated to 2665 BC, but no longbows survive from the period when the longbow was dominant ( c. 1250 – 1450 AD ), probably because bows became weaker, broke and were replaced, rather than being handed down through generations.

Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.

However, in 1985, Jim Bradbury reclassified this weapon as the ordinary wooden bow, reserving the term shortbow for short composite bows and arguing that longbows were a developed form of this ordinary bow.

Swords were common, along with lances for cavalry ; crossbowmen had become more numerous, and longbows were occasionally used in battle alongside the older shortbow.

Edward's archers were brought into place and went to work with their deadly longbows, and quickly overcame the inexperienced force of badly-armed Scottish archers.

Its motto is Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, a reference to the Battle of Crécy, the Battle of Poitiers, and the Battle of Agincourt, all battles between medieval England and France in the Hundred Years ' War in which longbows and English longbows were used to great effect by English and Welsh archers.

* In 1415, the Battle of Agincourt, the English were grossly outnumbered by 5 to 1, but the arrogance and disorganization of French knights, as well as superb quality longbows, were the underlying circumstances which led to the English overcoming the odds and annihilating the French.

Slav counterattacks were repulsed by crossbows and Norwegian longbows.

Shortbows and longbows were the most commonly used weapon ; the crossbow was introduced around the time of the First Crusade ( 1100 ), but was not generally used for hunting until the second half of the 15th century.

Since they required much less training than longbows, they were essential to the unification of Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Flatbows were used by Native American tribes such as the Hupa, Karok, and Wampanoag, prehistoric ancient Europeans, some Inuit tribes, Finno-Ugric nations and a number of other pre-gunpowder societies for hunting and warfare because, unlike longbows, good flatbows can be made from a wide variety of timbers.

If correctly prepared, it makes excellent English longbows, flatbows, and Native American sinew-backed bows.

The trade of yew wood to England for longbows was such that it depleted the stocks of yew over a huge area.

Despite the modern view that longbows had trouble penetrating high-quality plate armour after about 1350, as late as 1415 the hail of arrows created by massed ranks of thousands of longbowmen helped to win the battle against plate-armoured French knights at Agincourt.

However, even heavy-draw longbows have trouble penetrating well-made steel plate armour, which was used increasingly after 1350.

Other modern tests described by Bane include those by Williams ( which concluded that longbows could not penetrate maille, but in Bane's view did not use a realistic arrow tip ), Robert Hardy's tests ( which achieved broadly similar results to Bane ), and a Primitive Archer test which demonstrated that a longbow could penetrate a plate armour breastplate.

Even for knights, in practice their horses tended to be less well protected, so that longbows could kill or wound the horses even when the arrows had little effect against the knights themselves.

The Scottish archers used yew-stave longbows and it is not to be thought that they had weaker or inferior bows but rather had inferior numbers.

During the Middle Ages elm was also used to make longbows if yew was unavailable.

Some systems classify bows as either longbows or composite bows.

The English army was provided by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and combined several different types of martial forces, and included cavalry, artillery, infantry and longbows using hardened steel arrows designed to penetrate armour more effectively.

Though it is tough for woodworking, some artisans favor dogwood for small projects such as walking canes, longbows, mountain dulcimers and fine inlays.

In keeping with many late medieval battles, the conflict opened with an archery duel between the longbows of both armies.

`` Holy Mary, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, stay Thou with me on this next dive.

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.

When might Mary have had that moment to hold her child on her lap??

He felt close to Mary, having spent so long concentrating on the beginning of her journey.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary.