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How effective were medieval knights and trained noblemen compared to untrained levies on the battlefield, considering they had years of formal combat training while the levies did not have much. Could a knight or a group of knights fight off common troops several times their number?

by /u/Luckytiger1990 in /r/AskHistorians

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