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Chris Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1284 USA Gender:	Portuguese vs. Spanish (1385) Sep 1^st, 2004 at 11:39pm This website says: "1385 Portuguese effectively use slings against the Spanish." http://www.warscholar.com/Year/TechnologyOutline.html Does anyone have any information on what even this was, or better yet, where slings played in? Chris
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Hondero Senior Member Offline Posts: 463 Madrid-SPAIN Gender:	Re: Portuguese vs. Spanish (1385) Reply #1 - Sep 2^nd, 2004 at 1:59pm Yeah, that was in the battle of Aljubarrota, where the Portugueses got their independence of Spain. They have been found slings in the "covas de lobo", a sort of defensive holes on the ground from which they shot theirs weapons.
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