- The
Landsknechte (singular:
Landsknecht,
pronounced [ˈlantsknɛçt]), also
rendered as
Landsknechts or Lansquenets, were
German mercenaries used in pike...
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formation of 16th
century mercenaries,
largely pikemen,
probably serving as
Landsknechts. They
fought in the
French army for ten years,
seeing service in several...
-
battle of
Elfsborg (Alvesborg) in 1502 is
provided by Paul Dolnstein, a
landsknecht mercenary who
fought in the battle, who
refers to the
Swedes carrying...
- pla**** with cards,
named after the
French spelling of the
German word
Landsknecht ('servant of the land or country'),
which refers to 15th- and 16th-century...
-
mercenaries were
increasingly supplanted by imitators,
chiefly the
Landsknechts.
Landsknechts were
Germans (at
first largely from Swabia) and
became proficient...
- in more than five
hundred years since the
previous sack; in 1527, the
Landsknechts of
Emperor Charles V
sacked the city,
bringing an
abrupt end to the golden...
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particularly well
known as the
primary weapon of
Swiss mercenary,
German Landsknecht units and
French sans-culottes. A
similar weapon, the sarissa, had been...
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nationally in
Germany in the year 1941. The song
refers to the
Landsknecht movement. A
Landsknecht is the name
given to a
mostly German mercenary of the late...
- heap), the word
Haufen itself being a
general term for a
company of
Landsknecht. In
French such a band was
known as les
enfants perdus— "the lost children"...
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fighting force, but they
required organization and discipline. Each
landsknecht maintained its own structure,
called the gemein, or
community ****embly...
