Archers, shooting

The bow in its variants was the oldest archery weapon. Throughout the Middle Ages, archers belonged to the foot people. Sometimes closed bands of archers formed and were pressed into service together. The companies of the famous English archers practised regularly and introduced their recruits to this rather difficult art of shooting at the age of 14. The archer pulled the string of the approximately 2-metre-long elmwood bow to behind the ear, aimed along the almost one-metre-long arrow and shot directly at the target. As one chronicler credibly reports, such an arrow could pierce chain mail, chain mail trousers underneath, and hip and nail the opponent to the wooden back of his saddle...
During the Hundred Years War between France and England (1339-1453), English longbowmen decided the Battle of Crecy (26.8.1346). With great bravery, the vastly outnumbered French knights repeatedly galloped into the sharply aimed volleys of arrows from the "longbowmen", who were positioned as advanced flanks. After several completely unsuccessful attacks, they were worn down by the fire from both flanks. "Thus the knights fell..., killed or sore beaten, without having seen the men who smote them..." laments an unknown contemporary chronicler. The English knightly attack only finished off the puny remainder.

Series list for 100/30/102
No. 100-1036 (1x) Knight, standard bearer
No. 100-1035 (1x) Knight, trumpeter
No. 100-1043 (5x) Archer, in reserve
No. 100-1034 (1x) Knight on horseback, captain
No. 100-1042 (5x) Archer, in reserve
No. 100-1041 (5x) Archer, arrow inserted, bow cocked
No. 100-1040 (5x) Archer, inserting arrow
No. 100-1039 (5x) Archer, arrow shot
No. 100-1038 (5x) Archer, shooting with bow
No. 100-1037 (5x) Archer, shooting with bow