Agincourt on October 25, 1415,

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Each English archer could shoot about ten arrows per minute, and there were 5,000 of them - so the French were drenched by a cruel rain of 800 arrows per second. The French lost at least 5,000 soldiers while the English lost fewer than 500.

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Re: Warwick Castle 2002

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've been to Warwick Castle but they only had the static displays inside, no outside gear.

When I was at St Albans the Erime St Guard were there, doing demonstrations of Roman weapons and tactics on the old city of Verulanium.

Very cool!

Re: Warwick Castle 2002

[trickenzie.livejournal.com]

That would have been very cool.

We hope to go to Dover Castle later on, it sounds very interesting with all the WWII stuff as well as stuff from the Norman times.

Do you know I have applied to doa History degree from Deakin? I should be starting it next year. I love this sort of stuff.