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How did medieval armies battle in forests?

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Short answer: they generally didn't. I'm pretty sure the reason they are always in grasslands is because that's where medieval armies did battle. read more

Armies generally did not march through the forests, because they had no reason to. Lets take a look at the battle of Agincourt: the muddy field that the French were famously forced to wade through was flanked by forest. read more

"By the time of the Hundred Years War, the"typical" medieval soldier and the backbone of an army would be the middling ranks of society; neither knight nor peasant. Many knights and aristocrats never would see combat (or very little of it), but those who did would be largely indistinguishable on the battlefield itself from the men-at-arms. read more

Nobody really know, the victors wanted smaller armies to make their victory look better. We really did not know how large these were until the 1800 Napoleon wars when we got detailed quartermaster returns. If a medieval army is said to be 10,000 divide by 10 and will probably be closer. read more

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