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- Pike (weapon) (redirect from Pikemen)race, getting longer in both shaft and head length to give one side's pikemen an edge in combat.[citation needed] The extreme length of such weapons...36 KB (4,739 words) - 20:28, 7 May 2024
- The Company of Pikemen & Musketeers is a ceremonial unit of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), which provides a regiment for the Army Reserve and...6 KB (700 words) - 10:29, 9 August 2023
- Swiss mercenaries (redirect from Swiss Pikemen)Corvinus, known as the "Black Army" (1458–1490), also contained Swiss pikemen units, who were held in high regard by the king. The native German term...36 KB (4,838 words) - 18:30, 1 June 2024
- Infantry in the Middle Ages (section Swiss pikemen)of Morat consisted of 10,000 men, the outer four ranks being made up of pikemen, the inner ranks of halberdiers, the force having an estimated area of...36 KB (4,877 words) - 18:04, 15 March 2024
- Jack Taylor (TV series) (redirect from Jack Taylor: The Pikemen)Channel 5 on 21 February 2013. Following The Guards, two further films, The Pikemen and The Magdalene Martyrs, were recorded and aired in September 2011. In...27 KB (1,782 words) - 17:19, 24 March 2024
- of pikemen, especially Swiss pikemen, by either being swung to break the ends of the pikes themselves or to knock them aside and attack the pikemen directly...3 KB (303 words) - 04:19, 15 January 2024
- Ages and Early Modern warfare that occurred when two opposing columns of pikemen (often Swiss Reisläufer or German Landsknechte) met and became locked in...6 KB (595 words) - 00:45, 25 September 2023
- medieval knight), the Swiss, the Spanish Tercio and the Landsknecht mercenary pikemen. The emerging artillery corps of heavy cannons was a rapidly improving...39 KB (5,913 words) - 15:10, 26 April 2024
- Landsknecht pikemen, 1,000 arquebusiers and 20 cannons, defeated the French force of 9,000 men, mainly gendarme heavy cavalry and Swiss mercenary pikemen, with...10 KB (1,219 words) - 00:06, 18 March 2024
- describes the role of the goedendag thus: "They were placed between the pikemen, or in the second rank, so that with their shorter, very heavy weapons...7 KB (878 words) - 03:17, 17 December 2023
- Middle Ages, such barricades were usually fixed in position. The Swiss pikemen were to bring a change of paradigm by reintroducing the offensive element...7 KB (873 words) - 07:52, 7 May 2024
- first Court for which a record can be found was held in January 1657. The Pikemen and Musketeers (formed 1925, given a Royal Warrant 1955) are made up of...98 KB (9,929 words) - 17:47, 7 May 2024
- Delbruck, Maximilian did not fight with the knights but stood with his pikemen from the beginning. These nobles were positioned in the first ranks of...17 KB (1,914 words) - 13:45, 30 March 2024
- formations during the early modern period. Consisting predominantly of pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, their front line was formed by Doppelsöldner...26 KB (3,035 words) - 11:05, 28 April 2024
- Military history of Serbia (redirect from Serbian pikemen)The military history of Serbia spans over 1200 years on the Balkan peninsula during the various forms of the Serbian state and Serbian military. The Serbian...8 KB (853 words) - 09:56, 8 April 2024
- The Black Band was a formation of 16th century mercenaries, largely pikemen, probably serving as Landsknechts. They fought in the French army for ten...6 KB (874 words) - 05:06, 4 May 2023
- of choice was a short sword called the Katzbalger. As long as pikemen fought other pikemen, the halberd remained a useful supplemental weapon for push of...18 KB (2,174 words) - 23:28, 2 May 2024
- Cynoscephalae in 197 BC, the Macedonians commanded some 16,000 phalanx pikemen. Alexander the Great's royal squadron of companion cavalry contained 800...218 KB (24,230 words) - 19:29, 1 June 2024
- a consequence, the Phalangarii of Legio II Parthica may not have been pikemen, but rather standard battle line troops or possibly Triarii. Caracalla's...216 KB (22,034 words) - 17:48, 30 May 2024
- Renaissance, the infantry began to return to a larger role, with Swiss pikemen and German Landsknechts filling the role of heavy infantry again, using...36 KB (3,963 words) - 09:10, 17 May 2024
- Borrowed from French piquer. IPA(key): /piˈkiːʁən/ pikieren (weak, third-person singular present pikiert, past tense pikierte, past participle pikiert