Originally posted by MCdread
Anyway, in the film, and according to what calgacus is saying, the scottish victories go on pair with those of the flemmish and swiss in the sense that an army of people on foot defeated the enemy cavalry. That's what I though too. However, the other day I picked a book in a bookstore about the decline of cavalry in the middle ages, and it said at some point that regarding the 100 years war and the role of the bowmen, the french nobility could have paid more atention to the early signs of the power of the welsh/english bow. And in particular it said that the bowmen had caused the defeat of the scottish cavalry in battles of that period. And in some other paragraph it mentioned again the scottish heavy cavalry vs. the english army where bowmen were the decisive force. So, what's the real story?