A shield wall (scieldweall or bordweall in Old English, skjaldborg in Old Norse) is a military formation that was common in ancient and medieval warfare...
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the housecarls in the English shield wall. The housecarls were replaced with members of the fyrd, and the shield wall held. Archers appear to have been...
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soldiers to stand close together forming a wall of shields. Typical in the early European Middle Ages were round shields with light, non-splitting wood like...
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with a shield on either side, so as to form a more effective shield wall. The type of shield used will vary, depending on both the situation and objective...
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Stahleck Castle (section Shield wall and main entrance)
whose outside wall was the southern defensive wall. Two more timber-framed buildings stood on the west side in the shelter of a shield wall which protected...
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A shield wall, also shield-wall or Schildmauer, refers to the highest and strongest curtain wall, or tower of a castle that defends the only practicable...
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were generally large and designed for bashing and shield wall tactics (such as Spartan bronze shields), while since the late post-classical they were mostly...
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Shield Wall, the insane Valentine has his henchmen kill the city's control crew and put the city on full throttle on a collision course with the Wall...
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effective means of disabling an opponent or his shield, thus having the potential to disrupt opposing shield-walls. The Almogavars were a class of Aragonese...
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resumes the Blackshields attack Gorfyddyd and surround his retreating shield-wall. In the aftermath, Gorfyddyd is fatally wounded but uses his last breath...
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kite shield is a large, almond-shaped shield rounded at the top and curving down to a point or rounded point at the bottom. The term "kite shield" is a...
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Testudo formation (category Roman shields)
ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a type of shield wall formation commonly used by the Roman legions during battles, particularly...
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schiltrom, or shiltron) is a compact body of troops forming a battle array, shield wall or phalanx. The term is most often associated with Scottish pike formations...
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Berserker (Amon Amarth album) (redirect from Shield Wall (Amon Amarth song))
Gold" 5:00 2. "Crack the Sky" 3:49 3. "Mjölner, Hammer of Thor" 4:42 4. "Shield Wall" 3:46 5. "Valkyria" 4:43 6. "Raven's Flight" 5:20 7. "Ironside" 4:30...
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Scutum (redirect from Roman shield)
advanced in unison, which encouraged cohesion among the troops. It formed a shield wall and a mass of spears pointing towards the enemy. Its compactness provided...
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The Golden Shield Project (Chinese: 金盾工程; pinyin: jīndùn gōngchéng), also named National Public Security Work Informational Project, is the Chinese nationwide...
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primary technique was called the phalanx, a formation consisting of massed shield wall, which required heavy frontal armor and medium-ranged weapons such as...
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Persian shield wall was the Greeks' target during the early clashes, and that the Persian Immortals had kept fighting even after the shield wall broke,...
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infantry typically made use of dense battlefield formations, such as shield wall or phalanx, multiplying their effective weight of arms with force concentration...
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is revealed to be an Anti-Traction League agent and takes them to the Shield Wall of Batmunkh Gompa which protects the nation-state of the League. Fang...
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and wall. The original particle energy is spread more thinly over a larger wall area, which is more likely to withstand it. Although a Whipple shield lowers...
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wedge formation to drive open small sections in the shield wall. This would break up the shield wall exposing the defenders to flank attacks.[citation needed]...
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Viking Age arms and armour (redirect from Viking shield)
Ragnarsdrápa, describes some shields painted with mythological scenes. Viking shields were also heavily used in formations. The shield wall or skjaldborg was a...
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Florida. Another White ethnostate has been proposed by Billy Roper's Shield Wall Network (SWN), a neo-Nazi organization based in Mountain View, Arkansas...
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lions are released into an enclosed space, formed by soldiers making a shield-wall. Some are shown being released from wooden crates by an attendant in...
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by a shield. To be more effective, ranks of spearmen would stand together to form a shield wall, mutually protecting one another with their shields while...
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used in early modern warfare. It continued the phalanx formation or shield wall of infantry armed with polearms in use during antiquity and the Middle...
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any protective shield wall. The design of the pilum's tip is such that once wedged inside a shield, it is difficult to remove; a shield thus penetrated...
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vulnerable due to their being exposed, having left the protection of the shield wall, and there was a chance of being killed by a counter throw from the other...
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