Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 294
agration as well asdeath wherever they went. If we drew a comparison between the archers of themiddle ages and those of modern times, we should be OTHER ENGLISH ARCHERSL 289 struck with the vast superiority of the former, and betempted to suspect that the historians have much exag-gerated their… … Fire Arrows. (From J. Smiths Art of Gunnery. London, 2643.) of Henry VIII. commanding young men of twenty-oneyears of age who practised shooting at a target to do soat no distance less than 220 yards. Among archers of thepresent time such practice is quite unknown, for when weshoot at a target it…
Games · Sports
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
