STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2593, sig. 109-12/241

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For many thousands of years they formed the bow of history." wrote Leopold von Ranke once. The old Britons succumbed to Anglo and Sasûm because these Scandinavians had more perfect bows, the battle of Hastings was lost by the Anglo-saxons because their great hahr bows were not equal to the finer thousand knights of William the Conqueror. The supremacy of the Arabū over the Křostany during the Crusader Wars was marked by a better archery wýrma... Ranküv's statement did not quite pay for the Ja- and 1o, of the bow m, which has occupied the eyes and nerves. y Japan