IN THE RANKS
Feb 21, 2019
2 minutes
From the determined defence put up by massed pike blocks, devastating volleys of arquebus shot, charges with lance by heavy cavalry gendarmes, to the distinctive arms and dress of the Swiss pikemen and the German Landsknechts, the French Wars of Religion were a series of very modern wars. In battle, siege, massacre and assassination too, they showed how a war of
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