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With its comparable range and much higher rate of fire over smoothbore muskets, why weren't crossbows ever reintroduced in European battlefields after the disappearance of armor?

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With its comparable range and much higher rate of fire over smoothbore muskets, why weren't crossbows ever reintroduced in European battlefields after the disappearance of armor?	1802
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