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Suppose an infantry formation is marching toward contact in a melee battle. Someone in the formation gets felled (but not killed) by an arrow. Would all of his fellows just trample over him? To what extent did archers effectively break up infantry formations for this reason?

by /u/TobyTheRobot in /r/AskHistorians

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