What It Was Like to Be A Medieval Soldier
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- When called to battle during the Middle Ages in Europe, soldiers expected to be surrounded by unpleasant, if not downright unspeakable, sights. Much like medieval executioners, medieval soldiers witnessed blood, carnage, and death on an up-close-and-personal level. Accounts of the great medieval battles not only detail soldiers' lives and the conditions they faced, but also reveal the damage they inflicted on their enemies and noncombatants alike.
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You got to travel about Europe in the best part of the year with thousands of your closest friends, and you got to level up your looting skill! What's not to like?
Unless I have an "unlimited carry weight" cheat code......forget it. 😆
Or you might be marching through mountains in harsh winter while your supply runs out and you die.
@@gujjewman96 well, that's not a very good attitude, adventurer. 😆
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@@Artliker1234 that's the fun of it, no HUD so you don't know. Could be lucky and get a couple hearts lol
Narrator's vocal delivery has gotten a lot more dynamic since even an episode a year ago.
Love the videos
Someone said Stephen Colbert ONCE and I can't unhear it.
Iconic and better each video. It’s why I come back for more
@@spermythewhale2987 came here to say this. I hate Stephen Colbert
That’s a damn bot tho? That prolly means you’ve got something making your mind anti social
Isn't the narrator Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs"? It not he's a dead ringer.
Anyone who's been in the modern military understands the phrase "hurry up and wait", so guess that much hasn't changed over time.
Parade at 5 for something that starts at 8...
Tradition...lol
Now I know what it's like to be in a medieval battlefield, can you make a video about fighting in a colonial/revolutionary battlefield as a colonial soldier?
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Standing in line watching your buddies get torn to pieces as u desperately reload waiting for your commanding officer to give u the order to ready arms and fire
@@rustyshackleford9017 hello fellow rusty
Step 1: Kill Redcoats
Step 2: Go Home
Step 3: Repeat
9:50 I saw in some historically accurate reenactments these war priests had a battle cry that goes like this "Aiioooo" and "Wololo". They would chant while attempting to get enemy combatants on their side. They would usually succeed, unless killed before they completely convince the enemy.
LOL. AGE OF EMPIRES 2, So sad no one got it.
@@donsoloh 22 likes pretty sure we did
Glistening sounds
Hay hoooooooooo wolololo and Bang the fog of War is there and you just lost a bigdaddy :x (the cheated car with rocket Launcher.. yes the Priest could do that and it suckdd hahaha )
I love weird history! the soothing voice of the narrator soothes my soul!
_”...could you have made it as a medieval soldier?”_
Have you looked around lately? I’m gonna assume that’s a rhetorical question!
the samples were taken from random excavations and an average medieval war-horse had a shoulder height of a bit over 5 feet...that's more like a smaller horse....and people, even well feed nobles, were a few inches smaller too
That sounds a bit more reasonable. A knight on a pony doesn't sound very intimidating. A horse 5 feet tall makes a more formidable mount, especially with an armored knight decked out with all his regalia. Thanks for the info.
@@williamromine5715 your armor, weapons and underpadding was most likely also a factor why you don't want to have a too large horse
imagine yourself to be a late-medieval knight who just dismounted, engaged in some high performance melee action and now, more or less exhausted, tries to get up into the saddle again with his ca. 100 pound surplus outfit asap.....that's much easier if you aren't dealing with a exceptionally large horse
also, english horses in general hadn't the best rep back then, which makes the estimated hight of pack and farm horses from there extra unrepresentative
as a knight you want to have one of those 5.3 spanish breeds for battle !
@@feldgeist2637 you seem to be speaking with some authority. What would that be? As far I know the armor was very flexible and light, otherwise they couldn’t fight either. And the warhorses were related to modern day Clydesdales which is the largest horse. This research group probably dug up a bunch of pack mules.
This video is very dubious and probably bunch of horse sht. Also, it wasn’t their wives they were bringing alot. They brought prostitutes.
The ppl weren't that short.
"Studies and historical records suggest that the average height for men in some parts of Europe during the Middle Ages was around 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) or shorter."
Ppl weren't that short back then. That's just BS ppl repeated a bunch of times. Then other ppl repeat it.
Taliban in Afghanistan also had a fighting season. The winters in the mountains were just too harsh to effectively fight.
Fact
Didn't stop us from patrolling though. What a miserable place.
@@jasonarcher7268 Thank you for being there, to keep us safe here. Cheers!
@@jasonarcher7268 how did gender studies, teaching women about urinals/toilet paper and building empty derelict schools go bro??
Last I heard the funds for them schools were split evenly between corrupt ANA and ISAF higher ups and some diplomats??
@@jasonarcher7268 rah brother
*Historical doc of general pep speech* : "Men! Let us go fight this battle with power and dignity!"
*Medieval reality general pep speech* : "Uuuuuhhhh...So like, I guess just try to not die, yeah? Cool cool....'kay let's go."
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Richard the Lionheart executed 3000 prisoners including their families after a siege during the Third Crusade.
During Tamerlane's reign, people of isfahan in Iran revolted by killing tax collectors and soldiers. Timur sieged the city and recaptured it with little effort.
After restoring his control over the city he ordered the massacre of the citizens who resisted; the death toll is reckoned to be at least 70,000.
An eye-witness counted more than 28 towers constructed of about 1,500 heads each.
Good Ol' Dick
@@gujjewman96 he didnt order the massacre of the citizens who resisted, he ordered a massacre on the entire city, no exceptions.
Timur was ruthless in conquering. He used fear to conquer and hold places. If you dared to speak up he would make the entire village perish. He also never lost a single battle in history and is considered to be one of the greatest conquerers in history.
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Anyone whose swing a heavy sword knows that it takes alot of practice to make that slice. Seeing how Hollywood depicts medival age battles, the farmers turned quick soldiers most likely slapped the hell out of their foes with their swords
As someone who was formally in the military, the waiting part is just as true today as ever
To be a medieval soldier was typically to be given the task of defending some absolute ruler of varying qualities, and if soldiers survived battle injuries, disease, or exposure, they would oftentimes get the opportunity to supplement whatever they were paid by robbing civilians, and sometimes raping them.
Absolute rule is more of a late modern era thing
Agenda much?
Imagine all the bad bitches they got to have
@@StaalBurgher0 no not really. most wars in human history for the common soldier is soldiers(usually raised from unlanded, poor peasantry) raping and looting whatever they can before they go back home.
@@paulbrule5897 wdym like less central power as they had to get their vassals to join them?
3:50 People hear the word pony and immediately think Shetland Ponies which run around 12 hands (48 inches at the shoulder). Ponies can be up to 14 inches so closer to an American Mustang or a Moor Pony in England. It's also important to understand that the study was based on average size of surviving skeletons. There were larger horses up to 16 hands (about the size of the modern thoroughbred racehorse) and those are the horses used by the heavily armoured knights while the smaller horses would have been used by the light cavalry that did the scouting and raiding.
Actually, the use of a horse as a war horse didn't depend that much on height. Sure, the war horses were probably from the higher percentiles, but training, temper and general build was far more important. Knights didn't even necessarily want the biggest horses they could get.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Sorry (this response will be a bit long) but I have to disagree with you on this one. It's true that knights weren't riding around on draft horses like you see in the movies. Their horses were about the size of a modern hunter in the 16-17 hand range. This is still pretty large compared to ponies though.
The two hands (8 inches / 20.3 cm) difference between a pony and horse doesn't sound like a lot but horses are three dimensional. A 16 hand horse isn't just that much taller it's longer and broader as well.
For comparison a New Forrest Pony in England (which run 12-14 hands) weighs in the 510-730 pound range (231-331 kg). An English thoroughbred, which has a surprisingly similar conformation but is about two hands taller, weighs in the 990-1100 pound (449-499 kg) range.
As tough as the ponies are you can't really expect them to carry the same load as a horse nearly twice their size.
If memory serves, with the exception of certain Guards units, European cavalry in the 1800s were restricted to men 5 foot 7 inches (170 cm) to keep from overloading the horses and these troops were equipped with horses in the modern thoroughbred size range.
Now you can point to nomadic horsemen like the Mongols who used smaller horses but these peoples usually had several horses and would switch between them over the course of a day or even a single battle. Cowboys, vaqueros and gaucho's in the Americas used a similar system called the remuda and might only use one of their mustangs for a couple of hours a day.
As for temperament, that was important but different societies valued different things. During the Crusades the knights preferred stallions as they were thought to be more aggressive while the Muslims preferred mares as they were thought to be more manageable.
So yeah. History likes to be complicated while UA-cam comments don't usually give us the chance to give all the detail we might like;).
@@silverjohn6037 I didn't really disagree with the mention that horses were not literally ponies. I actually wrote a long comment myself on this video and one of my points is indeed that we don't talk about shetland ponies here. But I see that it kinda sounds like disagreeing with it when I start with "Actually" and then write about how size didn't matter that much, sorry. But I at least mentioned that I would still believe that the horses for battle were at least from the higher percentiles when it comes to height.
I just meant that while they didn't use the smallest horses, knights also didn't necessarily go for the biggest horses they could get, because other qualities were seen as more important. And I recently watched a cool interview (but in German) about exact this topic with the Dutch HEMA practitioner Arne Koets who is quite knowledgable with horses and medieval warfare (especially when it comes to stuff on horses) and he basically said the same. He said the ideal since Roman times up to Napoleonic times for battle was usually to get horses around 1.50-1.55m which should be like 14.7-15 hand? Although there were exceptions and according to him England was such an execption, they had a bigger ideal size. Although there was of course a certain limit, because the really big horse races today didn't exist back then. Although while there was this "ideal battle horse" up to the Napoleonic wars, there are of course also a lot of details that make it far more complex. One of it was of course that later cavalry had much more specialized subcategories with different purposes (scouting, ranged combat, melee combat, ranged and melee combat combined ect.) and they had different types of horses for those subcategories. On the same time, most of those more specialized post-medieval calvary types were also always travel horses, while medieval knights had a distinct travel horse in addition to their warhorse(s). So "ideal battle horse" just means "This horse is perfect to get on, do battle and then dismount and let it rest" , but sometimes you didn't just want an ideal battle horse, you wanted a horse that was as good as possible for battles while also making compromises because you also wanted it to be your travel or scouting horse. But I guess at least the higher-ranking people of premodern and modern cavalry, like your commanders and whatnot still had a specialized horse they had with them only for battle situations. But that's my guess, I didn't look into it.
Yay more weird history
Still marks in the groundworks around Kenilworth Castle to this day from the siege, and the siege took 6 months because they had to try and deal with the moat (8ft deep and about 10ft wide) which is now dried up
You have a very nice voice! Makes the videos so much more better!
Just because Romans had gear and universal armor, they still had to buy it themselves. Depending on your wealth and what you can buy determines where you will be in the army (age has a role too)
It depends on the period. During the Roman Kingdom and early to mid Republic only land owning citizens could be called up for military service, being able to afford and supply their own equipment. However after the Marian reforms of 107 BC the Roman army became a more full time uniformed professional fighting force supplied for by the state. Because of this the landless poor were made eligible for military recruitment. Roman armies from 107 BC onwards for the most part remained state supplied professional fighting forces up until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD.
We shouldn't overstate the whole "campaign season" thing. It doesn't mean that they went on campaigns every year during these season. But when they planed a campaign, they usually tried to fit it into that time. There were examples and there were many years without any campaigns.
Medieval horses weren't that small. Yes, the study compares them to ponies, but there are modern horses classified as ponies that aren't that small. The average size of the horses - not just war horses by the way, generally horses from the period - was around 1.45 meter/57 in. That's like the maximum size you would call something a pony. We're not talking shetland pony size here. And that's a good size for a warhorse, bigger horses wouldn't be very useful and also eat more.
Also, medieval people were a bit smaller, around 10 cm/4 inches smaller on average, although the nobles were probably a bit bigger than peasants.
It may be added, that tournaments during the high medieval and even into the late medieval age weren't exactly the romantized version we think of. Jousting was more of a small part of it and was usually done as a duel, that started on horse, but the knights would then dismount and fight on foot against each other. But the more important disciplin was the group fight which was basically just an arranged battle where knights of both sides fought originally with sharp weapons and tried to capture knights of the other side to demand ransom. A lot of high medieval battles between knights were actually quite undeadly, because both sides were more interested in capturing each other and they kinda speculated on being captured rather than killed. Infantry was often just there to look scary, but didn't do much in the battle itself. Infantry became more important in the late medieval age and kinda destroyed the way the knights wanted to fight battles. There were of course exceptions, especially when knights had to specifically fight against infantry like in the crusades or when fighting some revolt.
Yes, medieval fighters used their own gear. But we have to remember: a lot of those soldiers who weren't professional soldiers like men-at-arms and their retinues were volunteers who were more of middle to heigh class in the peasantry - burghers, yeomen ect. . And a lot of medieval cities and even some free peasantries had military constitutions that set rules what kind of armor and weapons people had to own, usually depending on their wealth. That equipment inspected often and there were even cases where entire units were sent home because they were poorly equiped. People often think of masses of serfs with armed with farming tools improvised as weapons, but that wasn't really a thing, at least not when everything went as it was meant to be. Serfs were serfs - unfree peasants - exactly because they had exchanged their freedom against protection from a professional fighting class. They were not supposed to fight, that was the whole deal.
And yes, looting was a thing, but there are a lot of examples where army leaders do their best to prevent their people from doing so. Especially when it comes to taking equipment from the dead of the battlefield.
Bows and crossbows didn't usually penetrate plate armor. There was a slight chance, but absolutely no guarantee. But they were still dangerous, the impact itself could be quite painful for the person in armor and arrows disoriented knights and could wound horses. Horses usually had armor themselves, but were not as covered as their masters. And while an arrow wouldn't directly kill a horse, there are many accounts of horses falling and crushing the horseman under them - another reason why you wouldn't necessarily want a giant horse.
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Long-distance stabbing is the best stabbing.
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Great video Lirik
A+ video!
Fascinating topic ana dhistory, it would be a very unique lifestyle!
The French had better horses than the English, though… how can archaeological discoveries in England represent the horse size throughout Europe?
So much rich history in these videos 🫡✊🏽
Intresting & informative. Excellent pics of the castles. Unfortunately the battle soldiers weren’t afforded much quality medical services if wounded.
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Thanks for this! 🗡 #WeirdHistory #MedievalWarfare #Medieval
And don't forget the ladies of the night they seem to be essential for any camp following crews.
You mean following screws?
and the laundry ladies. Got to wash (rinse) the bugs out.
Interesting tidbit about Agincourt - the nobles were intended to be held captive and ransomed off but a large chunk of the French army hadn't engaged. Worried about a counterattack doubling up their forces, they had to sacrifice that pay day and play it safe. Not unlike a captured ship's crew scuttling it so that it can't fall into enemy hands.
They actually weren't gonna do it but when a band of civilians attacked the back wagon supply Henry ordered the attack on the prisoners. He had to get the archers to do it because the knights didn't want to kill their cash cows. They also locked a bunch of them in a barn and set it on fire. Pretty gruesome stuff.
This possibly helped the English win the war, since if you ransom someone back they will want to come fight with a vengeance. Killing the nobles may have helped destroy Frances leadership leading to Henry Vs later successes
@@sniper.93c14 But the English lost the 100 Years War
@@onefrostysoldier6658 the era of Henry V being alive england basically won, only he died of dysentry and it fell apart and the war continued.
@@sniper.93c14 Ah nvm I thought you were talking about the war overall, but yes we can agree that during Henry V’s reign England was certainly winning and only took 1 defeat (Battle of Baugé) but had many victories to supplant that.
Thx for this video
Fighting, drinking and fertilising a continent. For as long as you survived
Fantastic informative video.
It sounds like a hard life but it seems that at least a medieval soldier had a chance of comforting himself with getting some booty.
This channel is 🔥
Yay, new video :)
If I could have had any say about being born into a world that liked to fight so much all through history, I’m pretty sure I would have passed.
Yep! Not even beeing the King or a noble, would have you guaranteed a good live. And beeing a peasant simply seems awfull. No thanks.....
You got paid to hang out with your friends on a seasonal field trip...what could go wrong
Have you done one on the four horsemen of the apocalypse yet?
I love your mix of facts and humor~
Medieval history? The four horse man are religious myth. Your on the wrong channel. How would he use ancient historical texts to talk about that dude
At 6:28 the one guy is banging his head on the door frame as he is looting the house!😄
SOoOoOoO......awesome channel indeed
that post card is awsome
Midget soldiers fighting on midget horses sounds BADASS!
Make a video about medieval sports!
Have any info on BC and AD assassins and how they conducted? New here, maybe you have some videos I have to search through
Ponies don't take up that much space on a ship, its why the Vikings had the small horses as well, it beats walking when you get over the sea.
So basically just like the medieval battle reenactments I go to then, but with real death.
I’d love to know what life was like in the Whitechapel era during the Jack the Ripper murders.
Interesting, but that's not during the time period of this video.
@@ozzierabbit587 I know. Lol. I just thought it would be a good topic. 😉
It was a dark, bloody time full of fear and the famous, albeit smelly, London Fog. In all seriousness, I believe they did a couple of JTR and the time period.
Listen to season 3(I think) of the podcast Unobscured. There’s a whole season doing a deep dive into what exactly happened, how the investigation went, and what the sociopolitical climate was at the time, including interviews with several experts on the topic.
Living in Whitechapel at the time would have been like living in any other English suburb during that era: mostly fine if you’re rich or a man; definitely fine if both; but if poor and also female, chances not so good. For a variety of reasons, apart from the couple of murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.
@@IxDreamedxIxMetxYou thank you!
The writer(s) and narrator make this series. The information is interesting and useful but without the way it's written and the great voice and humor it would just be boring history. Well done!!!!
The comedy is cringe as hell, and ruins the entire video. If I want comedy the last thing I'll be watching is historical videos.
Excellent video. PLease do a video about Byzantine medicine
This is why the month of March is named after the god of war Mars, it was the start of the good weather. I deployed to Afghanistan during the winter and saw no combat until the spring time came and all hell broke loose, its still like this till this day
Can't wait for Shads response video to this
Omg the bad ass short horse van damn! 💀
Did you do a video on camp life in medieval wartimes and Viking camps.
How about being a soldier in a Japanese Shoguns army?
Check the playlists
It's so random that you decided to include a picture of Heironymus Bosch.
To sum up, not that bad until you have to fight and a whole host of stuff can go wrong 😂😅
No formal training, then he mentions hunting which was reserved to nobility as one of the informal training... Nobility and wealthy people had access to maître d'armes for weapon training, they didn't just flail swords around like brutes. And even the poorer knights could count on the training of their fathers and uncles who had spend their lives fighting.
Please do a video about clothing worn my medieval people, ranging from Serfs / Villeins to Freemen, to Merchants, Nobles, Knights, and Nobles. About their under clothing, the durability, the materials, the styles. Thank You!!!!
Who else be high af watching these
Where do you find the background music?
Smaller horses where more nimble on the battlefield, it was a well known tactic in the Ancient world right through to medieval times
Medieval Construction would be so choice.
Damn when we got to the end it was like being yelled at lol
Do a story on the day in the life of a medieval blacksmith
Aaah that tune at five thirty nice
Poor Baldwin... that's the best portrait they could do lol
It is a rough life sometimes...
The idea of waiting for harvest and good weather to go to war 😂
The effect of any war will always most notably be a function of technology.
Henry didn't just kill his POWs for the sake of killing them. The English were under attack and couldn't risk the French picking up arms again. They were just too much of a liability.
Indeed, thousands of French were still in the field by the time the English had taken prisoners. It was impossible with their numbers and without sufficient quarters for the English to guard hundreds of captured prisoners at their back while a sizable French force remained to their front. The English King not wanting to risk a possible prisoner revolt at his rear should the French army attack again decided at the behest of custom and those that cried ransom that the best course of action was to kill the prisoners. Shortly thereafter that the order to execute was given the remaining French soldiers began to withdraw from the field and the English won the day.
The English, on French territory were under attack... they were teh invading force.
That being said the idea of nation was created during the French revolution... Henry was a guy who had ancestry and claim in France because his viking ancestors tried to pillage Paris and got bribed to stay in Normandy, became French, then invaded England for another claim and became kings... how exactly that worked so long and how people got so dumb after the fall of the Roman empire I still don't know
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Please tell us about early California where they used to Pitfight Californa Grizzlies against Bulls, Lions etc.!
So what was it like to travel the Silk Road during the medieval period?
Video already done
Probably lots of highwaymen trying to rob you.
You didn't talk about crossbows at all. I believe they were much more effective than the longbow. After all, the church and the Nobles tried to ban crossbows because they were so damn effective and anybody could use them.
Yes, the biggest advantage of the crossbow is that anyone can use it: a lord can conscript a bunch of his peasants, hand each of them a crossbow, and train them how to use it in less than two minutes.
While the longbow took much more training and skill to use, it could be fired more rapidly and had a much greater range than the crossbow. So, it was a trade-off.
The church tried to ban crossbows and archers in general during the 11th and 12th century, but it wasn't really something that was a thing for the entire medieval ages. Alo, the papal bull reads:
"We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to be employed against Christians and Catholics from now on."
So it wasn't just about crossbows, they meant any ranged weapons. Some translations even mention slings.
Longbows were much cheaper and easier to produce. They were also less fiddly than the windlass crossbow. Windlasses could tangle, break, rust especially in wet climes. Stress would also make it tricky to wind quickly.
There are advantages and disadvantages with both. You can't just say "crossbows we're more effective" without explaining why. Effective at what? Penetrating armour?
2:58 Reminds me of a line used at The Greatest Roast Of All Time: Tom Brady last night...
“Give it up for the lord of the Super Bowl rings: my friend Tom Brady, a man who has so many rings, he could melt them down and forge a sword to go on a quest..." (part of the line) - comedian Jeff Ross
When I grow up I want to meet a grizzly demise.
It’s sad that thousands of these men, women and children have to die for people who don’t care about them ):
About 11:30: crossbows shoot bolts, not arrows.
Hi, Weird History! I looooooove your channel!
Can you make more Medieval videos??
I want to know what it was like to be a Medieval monk, Nun, Criminal, Police officer.
To be unemployed and look for work.
To be poor versus being rich - pros and cons?
What it was like to move from one city to another, what it was like to be a landlord.
What it was like to own a store let's say grocery store or what they considered grocery store.
What was it like to sell items in the market?
What it was like to be a criminal - dangerous profession or better than the alternative?
What it was like getting married.
Let's start with those please.☺
Thank you in advance! PEACE🙏❤
Some really cool ideas!
Or what was a medieval criminals life like? What was a murder trial like?
What about the local brasses how far where they willing to go
There were usually no "police officers" or anything like that. Most cities had armed citizens who jept order themselves and the typical night guard was just a crsftman doing a kind of community service. Some cities had paid soldiers, but they were more used to keep order in the rural areas around the city and as escort for merchant caravans and things like that.
When it comes to really poor people: beggars were generally accepted inside cities because it gave burghers the opportunity to donate money to them and therefore do "good deeds" which would reduce their time in purgatory as they believed. There were even cities who complained that they didn't have enough beggars.
Grocery stores weren't really a thing per se. Medieval people were quite self-sufficient, even burghers in cities often had a garden and maybe some chicken or pigs. When they needed something, they bought it directly from the producers.
Being a "criminal" wasn't really a job and you shouldn't imagine something like a thieves guild or something like that. Medieval cities weren't super dense urban horror dimensions with narrow alleys and guys dressed with black hoods in every corner. Criminality was more thing of opportunity and not a life style. A lot of "bandits" were just villagers who grabbed a weapon and decided to rob someone - but they usually didn't stop to be normal villagers.
Do you have anything on the first tattoos or sacrifice
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
Yes, a Warhorse was a well trained beast of burden. An armored, fully equipped warhorse had to carry close to 350 to 400 lbs of equipment onto the battlefield. An armored night would weigh 250-300lbs plus lance, sword, armor for horse, horse tack and pagentry. A Warhorse did not live a simple life, and they were known to be rather ill-tempered towards anyone but their master and squire.
Image of soldiers riding ponies bring new meaning to the phrase "ride my pony genuine"🤣🤣
medieval horses were smaller than modern draft horses but still larger than a pony, most commonly coursers and rarer examples of destriers would be around 16 hands
They didn't bring those small horses that stood at 4'10" into battle. Those were horses used for more comfortable travel. Their trot was very steady and smooth and barely moved vertically which all the full sized horse breeds do. Traveling just a few miles on a full sized horse can give your back a pounding. War horses were a real thing in Medieval times and they were full sized Arabians for the most part.
I just watched Snow White and The Huntsman (2012) and there was a medieval fight at the end!
No, it was hard enough to survive without war. Injuries could equal infection and death.
What i learned is van Damme and Odo are with the lads. hell yea, i like it :D
Imagine fighting in a war that will be forgotten.
lol wow
Do “ The Battle of Alcatraz”
While there was no standardized training, that doesnt mean soldiees werent trained or only trained on the spot. It was generally one of the normal duties to spend a certain number of days per year training so tjat you were competent for whatever role you were subject to be levied to perform
War in medieval europe like going into a fun fair picnic. 😅
Make a video about Medieval dating!
In reference to the Battle of Hastings and The Battle of Lincoln...when I applied for colleges during high school I was accepted to all three I applied.
I ended up chosing Doane University (then Doane College), but the other two were Hastings College and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL).
Does anyone else think Weird History's narrator sounds exactly like the guy from arrested development?