Yes I'm sure I'm missing something. Do you have any examples of "average" battles? I mean, the way battles and history are portrayed in the books, it seems like knights were regularly defeated. Maybe they should reconsider which battles they highlight to give a more accurate and even-handed view of history.
I have found that much of the modern media downplays and ridicules European knights and their worth, and their morals and sense of righteousness. It has treated the image of knights unfairly, portrayed them as lustful Hippocrates and adulterers, unfit and not deserving of the widespread praise of the common man as the quintessential good warriors & role models as to what men should strive to be. Of course there were some bad apples, but the noble dead do not deserve to be generalized as such and spat upon.
Indeed, if the knights of old, our ancestors, were just over-hyped nobles, none of these heroic tales or battles would ever have surfaced in the collective mind. It is the European knight that was the greatest warrior of the old world, and the most noble in the light of European values.
Hell, even the pirate beat the knight on deadliest warrior, the American battle-simulator, even though they demonstrated how the Pirate could not pierce the Knight armor with any of his weapons, nor easily avoid the knight due to his horse. Of course, the Knight is not American, so it
doesn't matter.
Even so, knights are just men like the rest of us, and easily could have been defeated by any old peasant or archer with a dagger that happened to be around when the disabled knight fell. Keep in mind that this was rare, though. The battle of Agincourt is well-known and made famous due to the rarity of knights being slaughtered.
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loginIt is not all romanticism and guff. The Knights earned their titles as courageous holy warriors & great spiritual conquerors of old.