Because it’s the intersection (tactically) between the medieval and early modern worlds. Knights and musketeers share the battlefield. The pike and the gun get equal billing. It’s this brief and shining moment where everything fascinating about military tech coexists.https://twitter.com/Rizdach/status/1227026829451694081 …
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It's also, as I note to my students, a fantastically complex tactical system. Multiple kinds of infantry, multiple kinds of cavalry. Pre-standardized artillery meant that every gun is its own creature.
@MilHist_Lee once quipped it was 'Rock-Paper-Scissors-Dynamite-KitchenSink."
I use in my lectures an illustration of the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600); it has pikemen, muskeeters, harquebusiers, skirmishers, lancers, cuirassiers, caracole cav, heavy arty and light arty, all in one army.
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And if you move to Poland, you have all that at the crossroads of German influence out of the west, and Ottoman runnels channeling Safavid and Chinese tactics out of the East. It’s a buffet.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Tweets like this are how word people get sent down lengthy, complicated, fascinating rabbit-holes. I'm launching into this one with either 'harquebusiers' or 'cuirrassiers'
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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