Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Warfare through time
1500-1750
- Weapons
- Cannon
- Musket
- Pikes
- Swords
- Pistols
- Tactics
- See battle notes above
- Composition of army
- Pikemen
- Cavalry
- Infantry
- 200,000 armed men
- Recruitment and training
- New model army
- National army, pay soldiers regularly and give successful soldiers command instead of politicians
- Pressed (forced)
- Battle of Naseby
- Recruitment and training
- New model army regularly trained
- Trained hands
- New model army
- Composition
- Limited in size
2:1 infantry to cavalry
- Weapons
- Matchlock musket (some flintlock)
- Pikes
- Artillery
- Bayonets
- Tactics
- Push of pike
- Pike square
- Dutch countermarch
- Cromwell cavalry charge proved decisive
- Artillery used but ineffective
- Swedish Salvo
- 3 lines shoot and reload
- Impact on civilians
- Raids
- Damage
- Free quarter (troops rest with civilians)
- Taxes
- Requisition (demand for supplies)
- Impact of war on civilians