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The lightly armed archers run forward, they stick knives to the eye holes of the foreign minute arms, gather up the arrows they go back to the line they wait

the French are astounding the French keep coming wave after wave of cavalry charge is mown down by the long bow.

You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello and I'm Matthew Gault.

I'm Matthew Gault.

History is filled with improbable victories.

The Greeks over the Persians, the Maccabees over the Seleucid Greeks, the giants over the Patriots

in the Super Bowl.

Twice.

One battle that stands out over the centuries is the British victory over the French at Crazy

and David Crowther of the History of England Podcast joins us to tell the story.

And we'll be talking about England's secret weapon, the longbow. So, welcome David.

Hi, thanks for inviting me on the show.

So can we start off by talking about the lead up to this battle?

Who were the major characters and what were they fighting for?

Okay, so the central character in the story actually is a chap called Edward the third, and he's a fascinating

character. He's a very, he's almost a quintessentially medieval chivalric figure. As a young man his father,

Edith the second, was a very unsuccessful king. Light cutting hedges and digging ditches, was you know it's a nice personal characteristic but

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