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"Very many wounded were found naked among the corpses, some begging aid, some half-dead... Some still breathed after hands and feet had been amputated, intestines collapsed, brains laid bare, so unyielding of life is nature."
- Alessandro Benedetti, eyewitness; Battle of Fornovo
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"I, Ludwig Klinkhammer, who was wounded with a falconet shot... in the war against Venice. Then I called our dear Lady with her dear child and the dear child of Trent who helped me to stay alive... I thank God for that."
Anno DOM. 1487
The armor of a French soldier wounded by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo (which marked the end of Napoleon).
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"Our gens d'armes in those days wore great cutting curtilaces, wherewith to cut arms of maille, and to cleave morions. Never in my life had I seen such great cuts."
- Blaize de Montluc
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Errors in this video 🤓🤓🤓(cuz im free and bored and have a headache rn) 🧵
New video! There was a time in western history when the phalanx (kinda) came back. Armored calvary had guns. And gunpowder was viewed as strange magic.
Its my favorite era, and most Americans just never think about it.
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@Trey_Explainer
They absolutely did. They're incredibly common, from Spain to Japan. Any modern "historian" who says they didn't is a literal fop.
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"The battle did not last long, for the Burgundian archers were armed with great swords, per the ordinance given to them by the Duke of Burgundy, and after the shot had passed, they delivered such great cuts with those swords..."
- Olivier de la Marche
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"There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done."
葉隱
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Can we kill the "leather armor didnt exist"/"leather armor wasnt common"/"leather armor wasnt common in western europe" myth pleeeaaaase
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"Ello govna can you direct me to the neares-"
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"Of us there were 18 hundred Germans. Then the Swedish peasants, 14,000 strong, fell upon us in the camp in such a manner as here... We all had backs and breasts and helmets and arm harnesses. And they had crossbows and good spears made of swords."
- Paul Dolnstein
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Has to be either "Longbows were only replaced with guns because of training/armor piercing" or "Swords were rarely used and spears are the TRUE weapon of war".
Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!"
For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."
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@meizi_samuhara
They do both in the trailer
I think they got reenactors who chose to do either "trail arms", "port arms", or presenting the point of the bayonet forward.
You can see all of these in footage (staged or otherwise), and photos from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.
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the 5 bajillion people saying samurai actually used bows/guns and not swords:
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Ngl I had no idea Paul Dolnstein served as a cavalryman (possibly a light cavalryman, though he could be a man at arms in a light harness)
It reads:
"Paulus von Dolnstain in the Bavarian War bumped into the Count Palatine’s watch outside Landshut, came away without injury."
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@yoritomoart
You are never remembered for your greatest victories, only your worst defeats. The solution? Never lose, always win.
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making a pilgrimage
(gonna keep the helmet on all 12 hours of the drive)
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"And the masses together collided, committing to a bloody war. The crashing of lances, the ringing of swords, the sudden clamor of strikes, the cries of the dying, the lamentations of the wounded, heard within the very clash, appearing to disturb the air."
- Johannis de Trokelowe
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"There Lord Hugh of Scots was wounded with three spear−wounds in his face... and Lord Frederick of Loupey was wounded with a spear between his shoulders... Lord Erard of Syverey got such a sword−cut across his face that his nose hung down onto his lip."
- Jean de Joinville
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ye blankyt of mayle protects
men will literally spend countless hours turning aluminum welding wire into a chainmail blanket to sleep under instead of going to therapy
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Why do people act like the purpose of the two handed sword in war is such a great mystery?
I hate this unneeded nuance with the whole "well we don't actually know how they were used on the battlefield" that I see spread all the time
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If there's a single English victory that's deserving of "divine intervention", it has to be Flodden. The English were fewer in number, subpar artillery (drawn by oxen too), worse choice of ground, less modern army, low on food (one said they were fasting), etc. etc.
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@SaltyFrenchBoi
The reasonable solution: God gave us artillery, ergo, it is God's Will to use it
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the biggest crime of an overview of pike and shot is not mentioning the 30 year time period where crossbows and longbows were being used alongside harquebuses and pikes in massive numbers in actual armies (and not just militias)
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"The light horse, as per the custom of the Britons, carries a great bow of wood, and large arrows, and do not use anything, except for the cuirass and the 'celata'."
- Paolo Giovio, on the French mounted archers during the 1494 war.
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"... everyone together shouting and throwing in their yari, [they] clashed [with the enemy] from side to side and front to back [十文字], pursuing in a spiral [巴の字], [both sides] mutually hewing and striking down [one another]."
- From the "異本小田原記"
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this is really cute! it reminds me of drawing on the sides of my school work lol
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It's crazy reading so many authors saying that harquebusiers must be trained well (Kellie, Barret, Barwick, du Bellay, &c) else they'll do more harm than good. Which is wholly contradictory to the modern consensus.
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"... crossbowmen have more virtue than archers - half may shoot whilst the other helps... the crossbowmen stand firm... it has been proven that archers cannot withstand a great charge and suffer such harm that they cannot possibly match the crossbowman’s courage."
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Mechanical accuracy of a reproduction of the Otepää handgun at 20 meters. Barrel length of 102 mm (~4 inches), sighted in with a laser, and using period recipes for the powder. Look at that drop!
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1. the scottish "phalanx" wasnt beaten because of bows; at Sark the "spearmen" were not simply stomped by arrows, and famously at Flodden they were impervious to the arrows (though it was in the "modern" "French" fashion of embattling).
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I'm tired of seeing the whole "longbows were more accurate than arquebuses and could shoot further off, oh but the arquebus was easy to learn"
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this was what the avg gentleman looked like in the early 17th c. btw. effeminate men riding their tiny hackneys and nags shooting their puny carbines and pistols at one another.
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gonna kms (keep myself safe), Shadiversity and his consequences on how laymen perceive sieges
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"I have a black and white profile picture and I also draw art based on/about history and I also like knights"
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"... when the Germans arrived... one amongst the others acted as Roland, who with a two-handed spadone; hewed those pikes... and by means of a body of people encamped by that square, one pushed the other forward, and a good beginning was made..."
- Giordano Ziletti
I go into a good bit of depth in this post, with plenty of primary sources (quotes from 16 or so books).
Unfortunately the conclusion is kind of lame but alas!
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i cant find a single crossbow in this manuscript. also, it's interesting how the French are given the typical D-bow and the Genoese have recurves
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2. the flemings were famous for their pikes before the swiss, and arguably (emphasis) were the inventors (in this period) of the "true" pike
3. harquebuses accompanied swiss and german pikes since the the 15th century
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"The thrust is also delivered with the effort of the whole body, while the cut is made only by the movement of the right hand, and the side of the cutter is uncovered and left exposed to be pierced by the enemy."
- Rabanus Maurus
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The Great Journey waits for no one, brother. Not even you.
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6. "knights", as in, nobility in full armor (but also the titled men) DID use guns; gens d'armes of the ordonnances adopted a pistol at the saddle by ordinance in 1549 in France (in addition to their lance)
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Japan was a major exporter of steel and swords (and soldiers!), their steel was fine, their swords were fine, particularly fine too, considering literally everyone yapped about them.
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gotta be the video that has spawned some of the worst takes ever.
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> literally the only military memoir that might give insight for English longbowmen
> its not translated out of welsh
what the fuck?
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5. "caracolling" (wheeling and shooting) was not the only way cavalry acted, and from what ive seen, never dominant. decisive actions were always from the charge
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@LordO13797359
@Bolverk15
He was always like this. Like when people called him out on his "leather armor didnt exist" BS, he backtracked and said "it wasnt common" (it was common), and then he backtracked again into saying that he was only talking about like movie leather armor or some shit.
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8. rampaging through the countryside was often done regardless of being paid or not; soldiers sucked, and bands of peasants often attacked isolated soldiers whenever they were assholes (see "Renaissance France at War" among other books)
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4. the musket's rest also aided in accuracy; strictly it was not impossible to have one without a rest, and there was a practice by the late 16th-17th century amongst some to not carry a rest.
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Argument between people who think the Mongols etc just rode away and shot (but bad), and people who think the Mongols etc just rode away and shot (but good).
This is the state of Milhist in 2024.
Saying "Easterners lack the strength and discipline to come straight [at] a prepared enemy" sure sounds like a judgment. Many "Eastern" armies were disciplined. Some did focus on fighting in close-quarters. The overall East-West martial dichotomy is severely flawed at best. 1/6
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"It is therefore appropriate that, whenever the other urges his horse towards us, we urge ours against him, and if he throws any blow with a sword, estoch, club, or similar, we should receive it with our sword or arm..."
- Pietro Monte
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I'm going mad, these COULD be jacks, but you can't say it definitely because they don't have visible quilting, but otherwise jacks would hardly show up in art at all
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