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- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:01:44 GMT
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- In article <DOCONNOR.92Dec30131637@potato.sedona.intel.com>, doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- >
- > pa124548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
- > ] In article <> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- > ] >Recurves are period. They were the usual bow used by the
- > ] >Turks and the Mongols, as well as other peoples.
- > ]
- > ] Could you document that? The last time the issue was raised, one of the "
- > ] purists" on this forum screamed bloody blue murder because to him, an "
- > ] authenticist," a line of archers with recurves didn't "look mideveal."
- >
- > Of course I can document it. Find any collection of paintings of Mongols
- > from the period, and every other Mongol will have at least one obvious
- > recurve bow with them. There are some archeological remains too. Recurves
- > were all Mongols ever used, as near as I can tell. Longbows just weren't
- > practical as horseback-weilded weapons, apparently.
- >
- > Now it may be a little weird for, say, an English persona to have
- > one, but Mongols did fight alongside some of the Crusaders (actually,
- > a group of crusaders joined the Mongols in an attack on a Moslem force )
- > in the first half of the 13th Century. So Mongolian recurved bows
- > could have made their way back to England and France.
- >
- > Mongol recurves were short little things, but some were said to
- > shoot out to 700 yards !
- > --
- > Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
-
- Weren't recurves the national weapon of Korea, as well as being the royal
- sport of the Turks?
- Mackenzie
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