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Flaming arrows
sailordad:
i would think that they would have been used.
could you imagine the pshycological effect on your enemy,just think
there they are hunkered down in the cabin ir their soddie home,guns sticking out the windows ready to shoot at anything and everything that moves,
the people inside thinking tha they were safe, then all of a sudden in the midle of the night hey hear that sond of an arrow being released pffffffffft
they look and they see this little red flame getting closer and bigger and then it strikes the roof or wall of the their home,then they smell smoke.
then they see flames,then there re more arrows being shot at them,all on fire.
i think tha t would be enough for most people to run outside with gun in their hands and take thier chances wth theso called "savages" whoe were just trying to
protect their land and food stroes.
ya i think they were used, the natives may have been primitive by the whitemans standards back then,however they were far from being stupid, they used
any means they found to be usefull to survive
jmho
tim
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: woody on August 21, 2008, 06:26:17 pm ---Does anybody know how prevelant flaming arrows actually were on premodern batllefields?
We see them all the time in the movies, and it seems plausible, but I remember seeing a show about the movie Kindom of Heaven, and an historian suggested that the flaming arrow thing was more an invention of Hollywood.
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The historian was ill informed. There are a number of crossbow bolts with saturated tow wrappings at the head In the National Museum of Switzerland. A long tanged fire arriowhead is in a British museum. Flaming arrows were used in sieges to set fire to thatched roofs or wooden gates rather than use rams.
Loki:
They were used but nothing like as prevalent as they are in the movies,Ridley Scott loves a fire Arrow!
This cage Arrowhead was made by Hector Cole,you stuff combustable wadding in the cage,set alight then shoot' but you dont see any flame just smoke.I havent worked out how the 'movie' arrows stay flaming as they fly :).
woody:
That cage arrowhead sure looks fun! >:D
mullet:
There is an old PA article somewhere in the past , about someone, I think in Czech Republic launching some for a celebration. I think it might have been some of Jaroslav's friends or maybe hisself. They were also trying to shoot a electric cable across a cliff, castle , or something,, don't remember.
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