How Hard Was It to Supply Arrows to Archers in Battles?

SandRhoman History November 2, 2025
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We want to entertain people with history which is entertaining, visually pleasing and grounded in scholarship at the same time. Our golden rules: 1) We only use academic sources and always try to stick to the consensus opinion. 2) We always list our sources in description of our videos. 3) We make clear when we deviate from the prior two rules. Education: Between the two of us we hold two Master's degrees in history from the university of Bern and one degree as a history teacher from the Bern University of Teacher Education. Both of us worked at the University of Bern as teaching assistants. We wrote an article about our experience as content creators (ed. by Dr. Kilian Baur and Robert Trautmannsberger): https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110792898-005/html We also held a few talks about our journey on YouTube at the universities of Eichstätt, Fribourg and Zürich. We taught a seminar about history on YouTube at the University of Zurich in spring of 2024.

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Learn how to rebuild civilisation with "The Book"! Use promocode SANDRHOMAN10 for a 10% discount! Click here to get started: https://mdsh.io/sandrhomanhistory In The King and many other films, archers loose arrow after arrow, as if they have a never-ending supply. But was that really the case? Didn’t they run out sooner or later? In reality, each archer carried only a limited number of arrows, and a quiver could be emptied quickly. So, what happened once they were out? How did they get more arrows? In this video, we’ll explore how English longbowmen were resupplied during the Hundred Years’ War—and how they ensured they never ran out of ammunition in the middle of battle. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Paypal (thank you: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Check out our all sorts of military history, military SIFI and military fantasy books that we recommend here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/sandrhomanhistory Bibliography Barker, Juliet, Agincourt. Henry V. and the Battle that made England, London 2005, Kindle Edition. Bradbury, Jim, The Medieval Archer, Woodbridge 1985. Hardy, Robert, Longbow. A Social and Military History, Stroud 2006. Owens, Jonathan D./Wilinson, Henry T./Ramsden, Gary P., The Bows and Arrows of Agincourt: Can the Lessons of Medieval History be used to Inspire and Engage the Next Generation of Operations Managers?, Lincoln/Wallingford 2018. Wadge, Richard, Arrowstorm. The World of the Archer in the Hundred Years War, Cheltenham 2007. 00:00-01:00 Intro 01:00-13:03 How longbowmen were resupplied in the Hundred Years War

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