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  Medieval warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When the wedge came into contact with the infantry line, more often than not it would cave in on itself, allowing an infantry charge to move in and scatter the remaining forces.
In most medieval battles, more soldiers were killed during the retreat than in battle, since mounted knights could quickly and easily dispatch the archers and infantry who had been protected by a line of pikes during the fighting.
Against mounted opponents or other infantry the ranks of the bowmen were extended in thin lines and protected and screened by pits (as at Bannockburn), staves (as at Crecy) or trenches elsewhere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medieval_warfare   (6806 words)

  
 France Page
The French contributed approximately 750 soldiers from the colonial Du Cap infantry regiment; the Agenois, Gatinois, Cambrésis, and Poitou regiments of regular line infantry; and detached members of French royal marines, engineers, artillery, and other supporting branches of service to be actively engaged in the siege itself.
Each French infantry regiment was assigned a name and a corresponding regimental number, and that number was placed on the buttons of the men in the regiment to which that designation had been assigned.
On each button, this number was encircled by a foliole, or foliated broken line, with a dot in the center between the disconnected ends of that line.
www.artifacts.org /francepage.htm   (4804 words)

  
 Italians in Austrian Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Italians in Austrian Army, 1848-49 By 1848, Lombardy and Venetia were providing the Habsburg army with eight of its fifty -eight line infantry regiments: a total of twenty-four battalions, another seven independent infantry battalions, and one regiment of cavalry, a total of between thirty and thirty-five thousand men.
After 1830 over half of the Italian infantry could be found in northern Italy in any given year, mainly because it was more expensive to garrison troops away from home.
By the mid-1840s, twenty-one of the thirty-one infantry battalions (around twenty-five thousand men) were stationed with Radetzky's army.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/italaam.htm   (305 words)

  
 Militaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Including Infantry, Marine, Grendarmes, mounted on a green silk covered board with applied bone numbered description plaques.
Russian MIG pilot helmet with oxygen mask and communication line.
U.S. Army Air Force lined helmet cadet issue.
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 The Costumer's Manifesto:    Military Costume and Armor Links
Napoleon's Line Infantry and Artillery : Recreated in Color Photographs
DHM, Militaria, Coat for the troops of the 15th Infantry Regiment c.1785
Polish history, genealogy polish, family history Poland, medals, military history - The Order of the Virtuti Militari and its Cavaliers 1792-1992
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