French and Swiss armies favoured the crossbow. It was not liked in English armies, who preferred the longbow.
English longbowmen played a significant role in battles involving skeleton armies throughout history by using their skill in archery to effectively target and defeat the enemy forces from a distance. Their ability to shoot arrows with precision and power helped to weaken and ultimately defeat the skeleton armies in battle.
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Boudicca did lead one of the biggest armies and worked very well with them.
The history of archery goes back thousands of years. There have been stone arrowheads found dating as far back as over 25,000 years . Bows and arrows were first used for hunting purposes. Egyptians did archery dating back over 5,000 years. Other people and armies over east also used archery, including the Chinese, the Japanese. The Native American tribes were also very good at archery. Various woods and bones were used for the bows. The string might have been of sinew or of linen/flax thread. The arrows would had feathers, and would either have had a flint head attached with sinew, or simply had the end of the arrow shaft itself shaped to a point.
All battles are battles of armies.
The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 showed that the Americans were capable of defeating the British armies, and that France could benefit from the success of the revolution.
There have been many powerful non-Christian armies, throughout history, and there still are, in the 21st century. India and China have large, non-Christian armies. Historically, perhaps Genghis Khan had the greatest heathen army, which posed the gravest threat to the Christian world.
A long interval while both the armies stopped for re-fitting. Gradual tilting of troop-numbers in favour of the Union. Appointment of Grant as General-in-Chief of the Union armies, and his success at keeping Lee on the defensive in Virginia till final surrender.
The Athenian and Plataea armies turned back a Persian punitive expedition. This success convinced other Greek city-states that they could hold off Persian attempts to dominate them.
A couple of the armies that were in Greece were the Athenians and the Persians.
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