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Peter Gutmann wrote:
> That's the traditional Agincourt interpretation. More modern ones
> (backed up by actual tests with arrows of the time against armour,
> in which the relatively soft metal of the arrows was rather
> ineffective against the armour)
You have this garbled.
According to
http://www.royalarmouries.org/extsite/view.jsp?sectionId=1025
by the fifteen hundreds, the very finest armor could deflect almost
all bodkin arrows - but very few could afford a complete set of the
very finest armor - and the battle of Agincourt occurred well before
the fifteen hundreds.
Presumably the armor improved (and became heavier and more expensive)
in response to the battle of Agincourt.
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