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Military Archery in the Seventeenth Century

Military Archery in the Seventeenth Century

Military Archery in the Seventeenth Century

E.T. Fox / E.TFox

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781326441357
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Three primary-source tracts relating to military archery in seventeenth century England. William Neade’s Double-Armed Man, Gervase Markham’s Art of Archerie, and an anonymous pamphlet promoting explosive fire-arrows. Edited together into one volume with an introduction exploring the use of the bow by English armies in the Anglo-French war (part of the Thirty Years’ War) and the English Civil Wars.

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