Swiss mercenaries and Landsknechte engaged in a push of pike (engraving by Hans Holbein the Younger, early 16th century)
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The push of pike was a particular feature of Late Middle Ages and Early Modern warfare that occurred when two opposing columns of pikemen (often Swiss Reisläufer or German Landsknechte) met and became locked in position along a front of interleaved pikes.
The pushofpike was a particular feature of Late Middle Ages and Early Modern warfare that occurred when two opposing columns of pikemen (often Swiss...
first of the mixed pike and shot formations), they used small groups of sword and buckler men to break the deadlock of the pushofpike, as the Swiss and...
conflict of the early sixteenth century, the Great Italian Wars. Although the Swiss generally had a significant edge in a simple "pushofpike", the resulting...
defensive, though this did not preclude fights between pikemen. The pushofpike became rare and battles were increasingly resolved by shooting. Directly...
other pikemen, the halberd remained a useful supplemental weapon for pushofpike, but when their position became more defensive, to protect the slow-loading...
were German mercenaries used in pike and shot formations during the early modern period. Consisting predominantly of pikemen and supporting foot soldiers...
ranks and halberdiers deployed further back to break the deadlock of the "pushofpike" after the former had delivered the initial shock treatment. The...
against enemy foot units, when things came to pushofpike. The musketeers wore no armour, at least by the end of the Civil War, although it is not certain...
loop of the river by the pushofpike. It was noted that the Irish pikes had longer shafts and narrower heads than those of their opponents, meaning that...
steady pace, covered by a screen of skirmisher harquebusiers. The fight was even for a time, until it came to the pushofpike, the Spanish finally dislodging...
until the development of the bayonet at the end of the seventeenth century. The offensive doctrine of the Swiss—a "pushofpike" unsupported by firearms—had...
Gaelic exiles brought with them invaluable knowledge of modern military tactics including pushofpike warfare and Anti-Siege expertise. This knowledge was...
the hillside. Both masses of infantry remained locked in a pushofpike until the squadron of heavy cavalry under Boutières charged into the landsknechts'...
fight developed. The fighting at the barricades lasted two hours at pushofpike. At last the Cornish infantry gave way and retreated into the town, where...
Pike Committee was the U.S. House counterpart of the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate. The Congressional committees were part of an effort to push...
running short of ammunition, the Parliamentarian pikemen under Major-General James Chudleigh charged Grenville's regiment at pushofpike. Grenville was...
rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together...
pikemen charged upon the Spanish squadron, but they were repelled at the pushofpike. As the fight approached Zutphen and Francisco Verdugo noticed the musketry...
The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is a cog railway that climbs one of the most iconic mountains...
however, and nine miles from Walmington, it runs out of petrol. It takes Pike all night to push it back. It becomes appropriate for Wilson to have a serious...
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