On every ship they have a hundred crossbowmen of Genoa, the best in the world, and their spearmen also are very hardy men.
Now the two vessels were within arrow flight, and the bolts from the crossbowmen pattered upon the English ship.
Behind stood knots of Gascon and Brabant crossbowmen from the companies of Ortingo and of La Nuit, leaning upon their unsightly weapons and watching the practice of the Englishmen.
A sudden thunderstorm caused a short delay, then the archers and the crossbowmen opened the battle.
One Juan Pantoja, captain ofcrossbowmen and Lord of Ixtlahuaca, accompanied Narvaez on his first expedition to Mexico.
Calderon with the cavalry, and some crossbowmen of foot, went by land.
But Leopold only used his artillery to open the combat, and kept his crossbowmen and slingers in the rear, probably out of that feudal superstition which demanded that the knight should have the most important part in the battle.
Christian crossbowmen at Richard's heels were crying as they levelled.
Half the day they had wrought, while theircrossbowmen vainly strove to quench the showers of missiles the Nubians rained upon them.
The crossbowmen stood to their task like good men and true.
So the governor ordered them to embark, and they were about thirty men, and he sent with them fifty arquebusiers and crossbowmen for their protection.
The governor, having been informed of all that had happened, ordered two hundred arquebusiers and crossbowmen to be in readiness, and twelve horsemen, and with these he left the town of Ascension on Thursday the twelfth of July 1542.
He does not seem to have contemplated oars three-banked, and crossbowmen besides, as Sanudo does.
The musketeers and crossbowmen shot from a distance for about a half-hour, but uselessly; for the shots only passed through the shields which were made of thin wood and the arms [of the bearers].
Sobresalientes are called otherwise men who are placed over and above the requisite number in the ships, both as crossbowmen and other classes of soldiers.
Having stationed his archers and crossbowmen on the margin of the morass to keep the enemy at bay during the passage of the causeway, Hornmouth assumed the post of danger, and led the van across the morass, and penetrated into the island.
The Rhenish section alone was able to put into the field some eleven hundred crossbowmen and six hundred stout galleys; no mean army in those days.
English crossbowmen received all the wood for their bows from Austria by way of Danzig.
Many thousand Genoese crossbowmen were present at Crecy.
But Sordello's reemergence as leader of the crossbowmen raised another question: Would it offend the Armenians?
He ordered the hired Venetian crossbowmen to fire into the crowd, killing two innocent bystanders.
The Falcons' arrows swept the crossbowmen like a scythe.
He saw crossbowmen in the orange and green livery of the Monaldeschi on rooftops and in windows, and mounted lancers in the outlets to the square.
He crested a small hill and saw lines of crossbowmenon a long rise of ground that ran across the valley.
Two men-at-arms Simon recognized as part of his troop of Venetian crossbowmen snapped to attention just inside the door, and after a frantic scramble through his memory Simon managed to greet them by name.
Beyond Manfred's knights Daoud saw lines of crossbowmen formed up before the walls of Benevento.
In both directions the sights were the same--horsemen flailing at each other with swords and axes and maces, crossbowmen and pikemen struggling among the horses' legs.
Daoud had seen--and it had made him almost angry enough to want to break out of his formation and pursue them--a group of Apulian crossbowmen running off the field.
If it had been one or two men, as it had been that day at Orvieto when de Verceuil ordered the crossbowmen to fire into the crowd, he would have tried to help them.
It was about this time that King Louis had moved towards the Achmoun; and the Constable of France, with the king's crossbowmen under his command, just as the sun was setting came to the bridge which had been so bravely defended.
Crossbowmen lined the rail, grappling irons were thrown out, and the captain, with Nicholas and some soldiers, went and unearthed Mustafa among bales of striped cotton.
Moreover, the Norman crossbowmen and the English archers with their long bows had the pike-bearing Welsh at a terrible disadvantage.
The cavalry, musketeers, and crossbowmeneach received double pay.
De Vos: Triptych, painted for the altar of the Guild of Crossbowmen in the Cathedral.
England during his exile, when he was created by the Brugeois King of the Crossbowmen of St. Sebastian (see later).
The arrows from the Nottingham bows--unmatched throughout all England--did execution of a fearful kind amongst the crossbowmen opposed to them.
On the opposite side was a small stone fort, with loopholes fashioned in the form of a cross, like those for the use of crossbowmen in feudal castles.
On one side of the great town arose a castle of surpassing splendor, and he had heard that the Governor of Caen, Sir John de Blargny, held it with three hundred Genoese crossbowmen and other forces.
Among these latter were the crossbowmen of Genoa sold to Philip by the masters of that Italian oligarchy.
Loudly were they jeering, and the crossbowmen were even hurling a few useless bolts that fell halfway, as if to show the king what error he had made.
Footnote 115: The distinction between archers and crossbowmen is of little or no consequence, the missile being common to both.
Bishop Guy, moreover, distinctly tells us that they were crossbowmen (vide infra).
The crossbowmen and harquebusiers, who were expected to drive the enemy back from the tops of the walls, were unable to accomplish anything, on account of their physical weakness and of accidents to their weapons.
I ordered the musketeers and crossbowmen to begin the attack and drive back the enemy from the defenses, so that they could not do us any injury.
But the crossbowmen broke all the strings of their crossbows and the musketeers could do nothing, because they had arrived so weak and feeble that they could scarcely stand on their feet.
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