Ah, Agincourt-fetish, one of the few fetishes you can display in public without looking too ridiculous (in the English-speaking world). Longbows are great in o

Ah, Agincourt-fetish, one of the few fetishes you can display in public without looking too ridiculous (in the English-speaking world). Longbows are great in open battle, yes. But the hundred years war was a war of sieges and raids (by the English and the great companies), and for those the stonemason is infinitely superior to the longbowman. For the French, the winning strategy was always to avoid pitched battles and fortify river crossing points until English armies had run out of supplies, then patiently retake lost fortified places through siege.