Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 103
of Cordova, and finally the Flemish, under the Dukeof Alba, who successfully restored the military combinations of ancientGreece. They were the first to manoeuvre in dense masses and in battalions,and they were the first to successfully employ the column formation of troops.The pikemen of France… … Fig. 54.—The Reapers of Death, an Allegory of War, from an Engraving of Hans-Sebald Beham(Sixteenth Century).—Collection of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot. of troops was seen capable of advancing in close column without breakingits formation, and it was not till Louis XIII.s time that the regiment,…
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