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    The harquebusier was the most common form of cavalry found throughout Western Europe during the early to mid-17th century. Early harquebusiers were characterised...
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    Lobster-tailed pot helmet, also known as the zischägge, horseman's pot and harquebusier's pot, was a type of combat helmet. It was derived from an Ottoman Turkish...
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    speed and ferocity of their charge. They were equipped like the typical harquebusier light cavalry of their era; armed with a broadsword and two wheellock...
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    and Dutch military. A doglock carbine was the principal weapon of the harquebusier, the most numerous type of cavalry in the armies of the Thirty Years'...
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    German Reiters, added one or more pistols, while other cavalry, such as harquebusiers, tried various shorter, lightened versions of the infantry arquebus...
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    as a separate class of cavalry—the arquebusier or in England as the harquebusier). In general, commanders expected Reiters to be able to engage their...
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    The petronel was succeeded by a similarly armed cavalryman called the harquebusier.[citation needed] Although petronels had fallen out of use in Europe...
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    (Spanish) Imperial Harquebusier Regiment with 300 men under Colonel Francesco de Caffarelli, Colloredo's (German) Imperial Harquebusier Regiment with 400...
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    in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2013. Carabinier Cuirassier Gendarmerie Harquebusier Hobilar Hussar Motorized infantry Reiter – A type of pistol-armed cavalry...
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    April 1586. She was one of eleven children of Gaspar Flores [es], a harquebusier in the Imperial Spanish army whose family were from Baños de Montemayor...
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    variously called pistoleers, cuirassiers, or Reiters. In addition, harquebusiers - cavalry with lighter armour using longer firearms, such as doglock...
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    literally "shooter"; often translated as "musketeer", but more properly "harquebusier") were the units of Russian guardsmen l from the 16th to the early 18th...
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    lobster-tailed pot helmet and cuirass it formed the basis of the equipment of the harquebusier, the typical form of European cavalryman of the 17th century. Although...
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    Harquebusiers....
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    hand-held firearms. Later, similar competing tactics would feature harquebusiers or musketeers in formation with pikemen, pitted against cavalry firing...
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  • Rus' and the streletskoye voysko (Стрелецкое Войско), the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550. The exact meaning of the term "Guards"...
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    mercenaries, namely German Landsknecht pikemen and professional Spanish harquebusiers, sent by Charles V, who was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Queen...
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    troops were equipped in the common cavalry style of the day, termed the harquebusier, with armour limited to a back and breastplate, and "pot" helmet. It...
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    pounds and 10 shillings (equivalent to £1,084.487 in 2024), whilst a harquebusier's (a lighter type of cavalry) was a mere one pound and six shillings (equivalent...
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    preliminary barrage of bolts. Later on, the tactical landscape featured harquebusiers, musketeers, halberdiers, and pikemen, deployed in combined-arms formations...
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    halted while his men skirmished in the woods with light troops known as Harquebusiers de Grassins. Although these probably numbered less than 900, Ingoldsby...
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    awaited the Spanish army to arrive. The Spanish sent a screen of 500 harquebusiers to cover their advance; but soon the two unruly mutineer regiments in...
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  • Dutch must be prepared to be rushed by Dutch 17th-century Musketeers (Harquebusier), as they are the fastest-producing units of their type. This is the...
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    factory in 1691 resulting from the collaboration between the master harquebusier Pauphile and the financier Fénis de Lacombe. The firearms factory will...
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    for. The Commonwealth forces now gave fire with Kettlers' Courland harquebusiers while Wincenty Wojna's hussars charged at the Swedish lines, causing...
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    service of the Imperial Army, including the majority of Wallenstein's harquebusiers. The name came to be used as a generic term for light cavalry from the...
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  • and Dutch military. A doglock carbine was the principal weapon of the harquebusier, the most numerous type of cavalry in the armies of Thirty Years War...
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    Italy. Others[who?] trace it to the three types of combatants (pikemen, harquebusiers, musketeers). According to an ordinance for "people of war" of 1497...
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    the painting Descent from the Cross before he was commissioned by the Harquebusiers. Unlike The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden), Christ's body is...
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    Horse. They were armed and equipped in the style known at the time as harquebusiers, rather than as heavily armoured cuirassiers. They wore a back-and-front...
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