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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Armor & Gunpowder...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.070519.2430@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1e9ot2INNib3@west.West.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:05:19 GMT
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- In article <1e9ot2INNib3@west.West.Sun.COM> garth@dojo.West.Sun.COM writes:
-
- [A great deal of accurate information deleted, to focus on a few exceptions:]
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- >Agincourt:
- >...What
- >I also didn't remember correctly were the odds...9000 English VS
- >6000 French.
-
- Really? Keegan puts it at 6000-7000 English (1000 men at arms and
- the rest archers) versus 10,000 - 20,000 French.
-
- >Muskets:
- >...Once the flash
- >pan was added, one man could carry, load and fire the musket, and in fact
- >could do so at a military jog.
-
- I invite you to try this: I've seen flintlocks (more advanced technology
- than a flash pan) loaded. You can't possibly do this while jogging.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
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-