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Native Americans vs.English longbowman

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medicinewheel:

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But, what if the natives were in a submarine and the English in an airship?  ::)
Del
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Asked myself the same thing!

Chuckalong:
Colonists used longbows and considered them superior to the Native American bows. Their selfbows were also considered better and were adopted by the eastern tribes.


--- Quote ---I have read that Jamestown imported some 400 bows - but evidently these were immediately shipped off to Bermuda (?!) to be stored "in case of emergency" (rather inaccessable if you ask me, colony or not). The fear was the natives would reverse engineer them and try to make copies of their own as it was noted that the native bows were inferior).

I am told that there was a legal requirement to practice archery from at least the 1400s in England, and that this lead to having a large number of trained archers "on tap".

I know that the longbow was well on its way out by the early 17th century, but the last battle we have of their use is another decade or so in the future, so I presume that this requirement was still in place and people still trained in archery.
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