• pseudo@jlai.lu
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    9 months ago

    Oh ! I have a history question :
    Every time is watch a movie about some war in the USA, with their inefficient guns and all, there is guns, there is bayonets, there is swords but where are the arrows and bows? How come there isn’t any depiction of such an efficient weapon ?

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      9 months ago

      The Comanche were some of history’s finest horse archers and it required the invention of the repeating rifle to end their supremacy of the plains.

      There could have been a much stronger Spanish influence on the plains of North America had the Comanche not been there to turn their empire back.