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D Murphy wrote:

I believe it was the crossbow that ended feudal times not the firearm. Once
the average Joe could make an armour piercing weapon in his hovel, it was
all over for the knights.

I think a longbow could do as well as a crossbow. The weal link for the
knights was the horse, it's not hard to take a horse down.

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