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- From: nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher)
- Subject: Re: Primitive Firearms
- Organization: University of Toronto - Office of the Provost
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:54:40 GMT
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- In article <1hblskINN283@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cc697@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Oppen) writes:
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- >Not to mention things like the Hussite Wars, which were in period. The
- >Hussites, religious rebels in Central Europe, used firearms extensively
- >from wagon-circle formations like in the Old West. They chose firearms
- >precisely because a peasant recruit could be taught how to use one in a few
- >days, while to make a good man with knightly wweapons, the then theory was
- >that you had to start with his grandfather.
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- This effectiveness is the reason that the Hussites established the
- Kingdom of God on Earth which lasted to the present day in Bohemia and
- Moravia. Or did it?
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- Aryk
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