Infantry

The mace has been dated back hundreds, if not thousands of years (Dark Knight Armory). The earliest clubs and bludgeons, with rocks mounted on top, are considered to be types of maces (Dark Knight Armory). The mace became popular in the twelfth century and was used in jousting both through the medieval ages and the renaissance (Medieval Middle Ages). It was both used as a close contact weapon, and also on horseback (Medieval Life). The mace was the first weapon designed to kill humans, instead…

The ringing in my ear and the white in my eyes were no sounds of heaven, but of war. It was not the angel’s coming down from above to take me back up, but it was the aftermath of a M84 Stun Grenade. This affected the whole unit, even outside the door frame. They stood there blindly, Jackson’s finger was tight on the trigger. After it cleared, Jackson rushed to the right side of the door and his leading officer, Garrison, stood ready on the left side. The other two officers in his unit, Prince…

It was December 6, 1941 and it was a normal sunny Saturday afternoon. Nothing abnormal. Their normal daily routine Elliot went to check on his business then went to work at the navy base. I don’t get why he works at the navy base even though he owns his own business. Most everybody was on leave for the weekend. It was a long week this week at work last week and I am so glad it’s the weekend. The next morning I awoke to the sound of a bomb going off. I looked out the window and there was so…

Thanks to the ingenious use of the longbow in the Battle of Crecy, the English king, Edward III, and his army were able to win the battle with under 100 casualties while the French having over 10,000(Kops). Because of the outcome of the war, the longbow earned the name “The Medieval Machine Gun” (Kagay). Many of the tactics used during the Battle of Crecy by the English army were considered to be great breakthroughs in warfare and were the basis of some of the tactics used in modern warfare.…

The trebuchet was used to hurl large stones at castles in the medieval era. The trebuchet was a new war machine that terrorized castles throughout the British isles. With it’s origin dating back to China in 300 B.C., the trebuchet was used primarily by the French until the twelfth century. During the Siege of Dover, the French attacked the British stronghold at Dover. Once King Edward the first of Britain laid his eyes on this weapon he knew he must construct one for Britain. He told his master…

Eric Jager’s book: The Last Duel, closely examines the feudal system in France during the fourteenth century. Through his examination of the role between knights and nobles in medieval society, Jager provides a detailed description of how duels played a significant role in determining a person’s guilt or innocence, and the belief that pregnancy meant consensual sex. Jager begins by describing Normandy as a battlefield unmatched by any other. After the English had started to reclaim Normandy…

Joining a militia was one of the top things I never thought I’d do, and becoming Special Forces in that militia never made the list. Just when I thought I’d finally fallen asleep. The blazing light that fought to turn the milky white of my eyes to a black crispy crime. I raised my tingling hand that throbbed and as I gripped that white string and let my hand fall I returned to the cool dark. As I thought I had finally restored peace to the land a howling echo rang throughout the kingdom, and…

Medieval inventions, armor, and weapons made medieval life so much easier and more productive. Medieval weapons included a lot of items one included was the battle axe and it was used to chop and cut enemies and other items. Medieval armor were very inconvenient in the matter of weight and mobility, some armor weighed from 66 all the way up to 110 pounds. Medieval inventions made life much easier and less complicated an invention mentioned are blast furnaces were used to make fire alive and to…

Battle Axes and Saws were were heavy bladed weapons that did the job, right. Axes would disable shields, body parts, and even splitting the skull with one fell swoop….literally. Axes are destructive and have the “ability to chop catapults and fully disable them with one chop.” Byam, Michele. Eyewitness : Arms and Armor. United States of America; Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Battle Axes were axes, but they were double sided making it even more dangerous….and heavy as well. It’s major weakness is…

Conquering Hell I remember everything that day. The gas, the smell of the dead bodies, and the constant rain. But the thing I remember the most was the regret and rush of my first kill. I was in the trenches that day, on the front line. I enlisted for my great country of England and I was proud and full of hope, but in the trenches all hope was gone. I saw soldiers in agony crying and screaming. The sound of the constant artillery still bangs in my head, and I can smell the pungent mud. My…