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Sorry I never followed up with any more on this topic. I've been very ill for a while now. Re-reading the "facts" I listed above after doing some more research my memory infact once again proves to be good. Maybe some of the numbers are a little off but the essential facts are all right. A...

There were 300 Sparatans. There were also a total of about 7000 Greeks. After the first or second day of fighting King Leonidas dismissed them. The Thebans, who's loyalty was in question, remained because of a vow they took to stay until the death. I think a contigent of Thespians also "elected...

Duels: Do you apply 21st century American values to people who lived a thousand years before us on a completely different continent? We often try to apply American standards and values to other people in US Foreign Policy today and that is why we often misjudge our adversaries. All the way up till a...

I think you may be confusing a “commoner” with a peasant. A commoner, as I will define it, is anyone not of a society’s aristocracy (military or otherwise). A peasant is a person slightly above slave status who is “tied” to the land. Lord’s may come and go but the peasants stay the same. If you are ...

“One man defending his home is worth ten paid mercenaries. The Crusades taught me that.” (Kevin Costner, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) This quote is wrong. Battle after battle of the Crusades proved that a small number of heavily armored knights could take on huge numbers of cotton clad levied sold...

I too have tried many times to convince people that plate armor will defeat bodkin arrows shot from longbows. I have read in many varying sources that longbows had a chance in defeating plate armor at around 200 yards but that real “kill” range was within 50 yards. However even at “point blank range...