These units were infantry armed with long bow.
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The English armies..
they were one of the first armies
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true.
These units were infantry armed with long bow.
The English army had a great success with longbow archery during the Hundred Years' War against the French. During this war the longbow was very important in the battle of Crécy and in the battle of Agincourt.
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French and Swiss armies favoured the crossbow. It was not liked in English armies, who preferred the longbow.
The English armies..
1707 with the first Acts of Union that unified the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into 'Great Britain'. This meant any armies from then on were British armies, not English.
they were one of the first armies
Approx 21 000 English, 7000 Scots.
The kings army
The kings army
The armies of the Umayyad Caliphate brought Islam to Central Asia. However, these armies became more and more composed of endemic Turkic Central Asians as the Umayyads pushed further and further towards East Turkestan (modern Xinjiang China).
He defeated the armies of Calakmul in battle.