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Thread #87646   Message #1643142
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
06-Jan-06 - 08:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Inventions 'claimed' to be American
Subject: RE: BS: Inventions 'claimed' to be American
BTW, as evidence that England was not the home of the inventor, the first person shot with a firearm, was at the battle of Agincourt, and if memory serves the guy on the back end of that was French.

The English won that battle with their vastly superior longbows.

Don T.