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A
bowman shooting an arrow is clothed in a striped red and yellow kilt and
a red shirt and tights. In the 13 th
century the English abandoned the
shortbow and replaced it with the Welsh longbow. They then defeated the Scots at Dupplin (1332) and the French
at Crécy (1346). Arrows are fired from a longbow in faster
succession than the bolts of the expensive, heavy crossbow, which was
introduced much later. |