William Wallace
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Heavy Horse Is Not the Way Forward, Is It?
Scottish landscape lends itself to this form of warfare because we don't have masses of open fields. So really heavy horses are not the way ahead. And it took people a long time to actually learn that. The secret of the swiss pike in the late 14 hundreds and 15 hundreds, again, was discipline and speed. But then we get to flodden. That's another story entirely crike.
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