Definition of Colunellas. Meaning of Colunellas. Synonyms of Colunellas

- tactic resulted in triumph for the Spanish and Fernández de Córdoba's colunellas at the Battle of Cerignola, one of the great victories of the Italian...
- Aztecs, served as a rodelero under Cortés. When the Spanish adopted the colunella (the first of the mixed pike and shot formations), they used small groups...
- ravaged by arquebus fire. The arquebusiers formed a part of the Spanish colunellas and of the German doppelsöldners. A m**** of Spanish and German foot soldiers...
- first pike and shot formation of arquebusiers and pikemen, known as the colunella. During the 16th century this formation evolved into the tercio infantry...
- blocks: three divisions of Spanish infantry, each consisting of four colunellas of 500–600 men each, and one formation of Papal infantry, numbering about...
- 17th centuries. Initially second in rank to a coronel ("colonel") in a colunella, the sargento mayor became second in rank to the maestre de campo after...