How the Medieval Longbow Cut Down a French Army in 1346

30,000 Frenchmen, 14,000 Englishmen , sounds like the French are outnumbered to me 😅😅😅

Those actors are not archers. 10 pound bows! The real archers shot bows from 70 to 210 pounds. Deadly fellas in a bar brawl!

Wow, with the complete lack of facts I thought I was watching the History Channel

You don’t draw a longbow like that! The reconstruction isn’t even on the same battlefield! Garbage!

How? How can anyone - in less than 2.5 minutes - make so many glaring mistakes? I’m gobsmacked…….. even the bloke who said “…..the longbow isn’t an accurate weapon” was either edited badly or has no knowledge of the longbow. Yes accuracy was surrendered to volume in volleys, but in the right, trained over years hands, it was - and still is - an accurate tool.

Poor show. Poor show indeed….

Hideously inaccurate depiction of how to shoot a heavy bow.

The king on Netflix?

Why is an English longbowman using a thumb draw?

Cannot discount the role the muddy fields they were negotiating in slowed, basically forestalled the French army too. Bogging down horses and riders. Making them easy targets for the English bowmen.

12 arrows every minute at 150 mph, 300FPS up to 300 yards. . get some of that Frenchie,

Why do the French have the arms of the Holy Roman Empire there? Come on Smithsonian, you can do better than that.

I think the longbowmen practiced more than many of the opposing swordmen, they had to by english law.

Saturated fire used for years to come

Interesting to mention all french prisoners were killed...disrespecting the rules of battle....

genghis khan already shown the english how to win french knight in 1223

it didn't cut down the french and the french won. First of all, the hundred year war wasn't English vs French, it was Armaniacs French vs Burgundian French and English mecenaries hired by Burgundy. And it is French Burgundy that won the war and at the end, Burgundy even turned its crossbows against England who lost its usefulness and destroyed the English longbow army so badly that the English had to run back to their isolated island. Making Burgundy the wealthiest and most powerful nation of medieval Europe. Burgundy today is Eastern France.

Wie? Des wars jez schon oder was?

Good summary but It’s shame you could have gotten the coat of arms right , the black Double headed eagle on yellow background is the German Imperial standard , the French had golden fleur de Lys on blue background

What's wrong with this is the idea of loosing arrows into the sky wlly nilly. At Cressy, Poitiers and Azincourt, the English tactic was to advance to about 150 yards from the massed French mounted knights, then either dig ankle breakers (holes) or plant stakes, to about 30 yards out. As the English always occupied the hig ground in those battles, they waited until the French charged. At 100 yards the English loosed straight into the front rank of French knights. As they went down, taking the second rank and some of the third with them, the second English volley was loosed into the third and fourth ranks. All three battles were fought after very wet weather, so the field was muddy and sodden. After two or three volleys, the English archers pounced forward and knifed the helpless Frenchmen caught under their dead or dying horses. Then they returned to their ranks to await the next charge. As you can see, this video is hopelessly wrong.😊

Fun fact: Skeletons of longbow archers can be identified based off how their shooting arm developed compared to the other arm.

Battle of Agincourt in 1314 was the first major battle of the Hundred Years War.

The guy in the thumbnail is using a pinch grip, which means his particular bow was 20# max....

Just to correct the expert you do not fire arrows, there is no gunpowder involved as in firearms an arrow is loosed, released, shot never fired.

Based English

Re: the thumbnail. Longbowmen wouldn’t have had chainmail. They were commoners.

Literally everything about this video is incorrect, but I have no time to address it.

This is also where "flipping the bird" came from. Without your middle finger you can't draw the bow. The French, certain of a victory said they would cut off the middle finger of every English bowman after the battle. But thats not what happened. So therefore after the English achieved victory, they all raised their middle fingers at the French. To show they coyld still shoot their arrows or flip the bird.

Why they are not fighting again 😢

How would the long-bow stack up against the recurved composite bow popular on the Asiatic Steppes?

The English won the battle but the french won the war, and kicked the invaders out .

Those arrows are going as fast or even faster than a Major League fastball too.

The filmillustrations of this video were “more than creative” (for one claiming to be a documentary) to say the least: German knights posing as French, and English longbowmen shooting with thumb release (i.e. Asian and/or Near Eastern style), later wearing Templar cross...😤🤪

England was basicly a French colony at the time, being conqered and ruled by the Normands for many years, but AngloAmerican propaganda runs the net.

Arrows fallimg down on people
Didnt The british shoot their Longbows right at you?

Just because the tactic isn't one of precision doesn't mean the weapon isn't capable of it.

the whole english longbow subject is as boring as ... please help me !

Yep. And if you didn't die from the initial hit, the infection from them pissing on the ground where they stuck their arrows would, eventually... no next battle.

We already know those informations. Where is the more rare information? It's just an explanation of bowmen. No questions answered.

Those are german not french

Fought for just ego, finally what did they achieve? ( England Vs.France)

Er... "Welsh" longbow!

Wrong 180lds of force to pull a bow lool every museum iv been to here in England always say the same to reach the distance would need a minimum of 180ld but these guys was doing it day in day out

Interesting comments, the Longbow was used for years, why? It must have been an effective weapon, whatever it's faults, simple as that!

Bowmen,ready!!Always against French Frogs

Ha there's a lot of quantative data here. 35000 arrows a minute sounds dubious. How many arrows can a man carry? How many can an army make and carry?

Virtually nothing here was accurate.

This seems to be a pattern with the English and French. The English attack with numerically inferior forces, the French think it's an automatic win and get cocky, then they get their teeth kicked in by archers firing massive volleys of arrows

Also if the French caught one of our boys with a longbow they would cut off those 2 fingers. The English would taunt the French by sticking up those two fingers at them.

The fact I am dealing with trick shot archers, those who do archery for sport and didn't know this basic info is baffling.

Yet again unhistorical armour without any padding underneath.