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    Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series)
    Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series)
    Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series)
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    Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series)

    By Edward S. Morse and Horace A. Ford

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    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to archery. It includes a fascinating historical account of archery throughout the ages and contains information on the differences in archery practice in a variety of cultures. It also provides simple instructions on how to use a bow and arrow. This volume is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in archery. Contents include: "The History of Archery", "Additional Notes on Arrow Release", "Primary Release", "Secondary Release", "Tertiary Release", "Mediterranean Release", "Mongolian Release", "Additional Equipment", "Aiming the Bow", "Arrows", "Striking your Target", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with an introductory essay on History of Archery by Horace A. Ford.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Country Books
    Release dateAug 25, 2017
    ISBN9781473340138
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      Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series) - Edward S. Morse

      ADDITIONAL NOTES ON ARROW RELEASE

      By EDWARD S. MORSE

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the

      British Library

      There is no excellence in archery

      without great labour.

      – MAURICE THOMPSON

      (Fig. 26) Negrito Bowmen. Philippine Islands

      CONTENTS

      THE HISTORY OF ARCHERY

      ADDITIONAL NOTES ON ARROW RELEASE

      APPENDIX

      THE HISTORY OF ARCHERY

      A GLANCE AT THE CAREER OF

      THE ENGLISH LONG-BOW

      by Horace A. Ford

      The date of the first introduction of the long-bow into England is a matter of considerable uncertainty, and a cheval de bataille with all historians and authors who have attempted to determine it; but it is certain that it was not till after the battle of Hastings, and the subsequent conquest of Britain by the Normans, that it became he favourite and specially encouraged military weapon in the hands of its inhabitants. The preponderance of historical evidence goes to prove that, to the deadly effects produced by it in that battle, the invaders principally owed their victory—Harold himself and the best of his men falling victims to the clothyard shaft. Thus the long-bow proved the prime agent in subjugating this country, substituting the Norman for the Saxon rule, and, by the intermixture of the two people, ultimately in completing that far-famed Anglo-Saxon race, the popularly supposed powers of which to accomplish everything everywhere it behoveth not one of themselves further to dilate upon. From this time, then, we may conclude, commenced in England that general, and all but universal, cultivation of the bow, which was ultimately to lead to such marvellous and astounding results, and to render the very name of the, English bowman an object of terror and dread in the minds of his enemies. Archers we find employed on both sides in the civil contests between Stephen and Matilda, and during the reign of Henry II. they began to form the larger portion of the infantry of the English armies, and to evince that decided superiority over those of every other nation which they ever afterwards retained.

      In this reign, too, first appeared upon the scene that prince of good fellows (as times went) and gentlest of robbers and outlaws, bold Robin Hood!—that hero of impossible shots, the twang of whose bow, with that of his jolly companions everyone, could, according to Drayton, be heard a mile off! Credat Judaeus! However this may be, if there be truth at all in history and legend, he and his merry men were incomparable Archers, for strength and skill never surpassed, if ever equalled; and we may well suppose Archery to have been brought to the highest pitch of perfection in the times that produced such eminent exemplifiers of the Art. Robin flourished much longer than is usual with such bold spirits, even in the olden time; for we find him still in his glory through the reign of Richard I, John, and a considerable portion of that of his successor, Henry III.

      It would be impossible, without entering into a mass of details whose length would be unsuited to the nature of these pages, to mention a tithe of the extraordinary feats performed and victories gained by the English during the next three or four centuries, owing entirely to their superiority in the use of the long-bow. The fictions of romance pale before many of the authenticated tales handed down to us by historians of the wonders it achieved. No armour that could be made proved strong enough to insure its wearer against its power, no superiority of numbers seemed sufficient to wrest a victory from its grasp. Speed declares that the armour worn by Earl Douglas and his men-at-arms at the battle of Homildon had been three years in making, and was of remarkable temper, yet the English arrows rent it with little adoe. Gibbon tells us that, on one occasion, during the Crusades, Richard, with seventeen knights and three hundred archers, sustained the charge of the whole Turkish and Saracen army; and the pages of Froissart teem with the details of battles and skirmishes without number, in which the irresistible power placed by it in the hands of the English enabled them

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