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Example sentences for: crossbows

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The Rajputs made a belated alliance and fought valiantly from one desert fortress to another, but their elephants could not match their opponents’ fast horses and Afghan cavalry firing superior crossbows at the gallop.
However, not even their wildest visions prepared them for the arrival of bearded men armed with swords and crossbows, in whose wake the Indian population plummeted from a peak of 275,000 to a mere 16,000 at the start of the 20th century.