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The archer who kills Baretto is nonsense. He's trying to use an English longbow while riding a horse. Although the longbow was a deadly weapon in the hands of an experienced bowman, being capable of piercing armour if it shot a bodkin arrow, it had limitations. It was exclusively an infantry weapon because it was about five feet long and therefore impossible to use properly from horseback. And more, it took serious upper body strength to draw one, which would have been impossible while riding a horse. In any case, English archers were traditionally hunters and peasants and could not have afforded the cost of owning a riding horse, so could not have learned to ride or the art of horse archery. The medieval English never had any mounted horse archers because of these limitations. It was only later in Eastern Europe and in Mongolia that the medieval era began to develop composite recurve bows, which were short enough to be used on horseback, but still strong enough to take down an armoured soldier.

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