What is "crossbowman"

Usage examples of "crossbowman".

A column of mounted crossbowmen brought up the rear, and fanned out to either side of the road when they reached the Chequy Water and saw Dunk waiting on the other side.

There were six thousand crossbowmen and twice as many men- at-arms, who were being reinforced by infantry that was appearing on both French flanks.

Mat sat Pips in the darkness among the trees and waited, surrounded by two thousand mounted crossbowmen.

It was a long way off, on the far northern bank of the river that here flowed between vast reedbeds, but Thomas could still see that the lines of horsemen, wagons, infantry and crossbowmen were filling every lane and track of that distant bank.

Which should have been, thought Foster, more than enough to subdue an impoverished pocket principalityfive hundred cavalrymen, three thousand infantry and arquebusiers or crossbowmen, eight large bombards, and probably three or four times that number of smaller cannon, plus the inevitable catapults and spear throwers.

A long slithering rasp went on either side as the crossbowmen slung their weapons, swung their bucklers around, and drew the short swords at their right hips with a snapping flex of the wrist.

Along the upper tier, which curled around the sides of the ridge, about two thousand archers and crossbowmen were sticking shafts and bolts into the ground, making a convenient hedge.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the Gardac captain, this Dalkan Vael, spurrose mace in hand, looking up at the archers and crossbowmen, waiting for them to loose a first volley.

He made a small hand sign to one of the throne guards who held the balconies this day, to make stone cold sure no baronial crossbowmen just happened to idly mount the back stairs to gain a better view of things.

Grey Swords were assembling further down Inside Port Street, swordsmen, crossbowmen, and Capanthall archers, forming a fall-back line.

A half-dozen crossbowmen sat nearby, their weapons dismantled on their laps.

It was at Paris that they had picked up the four crossbowmen, pensioned off from the Italian wars, led by a sergeant named Patrice who had declared that he and his men were ready to hire out to protect the pilgrims on the perilous passage through bandit- ridden southern France.

Riders in chain mail on slender, quick-stepping horses, riders in plate on massive chargers, crossbowmen on mules.

They have both longbow-men and crossbowmen, but they probably left them to defend their train.

Along the battlements of the inner and outer wards and the barbican were lines of crossbowmen, and catapult crews were ready with missiles and engines at the bastions.