Drilkonst, of Wapen-oeffening Henderik van Buren 1672 translation by Eli Steenput Chapter III: On the use of pikes.

 Handling the pike

Commands for the exercise of foot, ... 1690

 

Man in Armour Holding a Pike, Jan van Bijlert, 1630.

 Jan van Bijlert - Wikipedia

"Soldiers at Rest in an Inn" (or Soldats au repos dans une auberge) by the French painter Jean Michelin.

 Jean Michelin - Wikipedia

I am 4th from the left. Devereux's. Pic is by Richard Ellis.

Tudor pikemen

 Wars of Louis Quatorze: British School, 16th century Jephthah's Daughter c. 1560-80

Charge your pike

 Used an old pic of the 1685 Society at Glastonbury tithe barn. 

Anybody know where these images are from?

 Dave says English Broadside ballad.

The military discipline wherein is martially showne ... 1642

 

Somerset Trained Bands

 

Somerset Trained Bands - Wikipedia Fought at Newburn. 

Somerset Trained Bands — Grokipedia

Vrancx AI

 Sebastiaen Vrancx - Wikipedia

Michael van Meer's Album Amicorum, 1614-1617

 

Category:Album amicorum of Michael van Meer - Wikimedia Commons

Pike postures

 Anybody know where online I could find these images? I think they are Wallhausen but not in the editions I have found on line.

l "Kuenstliche Picquen-Handlungen" (Art of the Pike), published in 1617 by Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen.

 

⁣Digitale Sammlungen: Künstliche Picquen-Handlung

The military discipline : wherein is most martially shone the order of drilling for ye musket and pike 1623

 https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib171251-165777

Set forth in postures with the words of command and briefe instructions for the right vse of the same. To be exercised in musters by order from ye Lords of His Ma:ties most Ho:ble Privy Counsaile·

Push of pike at Breitenfeld

 ''They seeing us marching towards them, they advanced likewise towards us, and came so close one to another that joyning battalions together, we came to pushe of pike and disputed the busyness so longe, till it pleased God, that we routed them, and gave us the victorie....'' Sergeant Major John Forbes who wrote an eyewitness account of First Breitenfeld.

A letter from Sarient Maior Forbes from the King of Swethens army to his reverend father Mr. Iohn Forbes, minister to the Worshipful Company of Marchant Adventurers residing in Delft [microform] : touching the great battle fought by Lypsick betweene the King of Swethen, the Duke of Saxons army, and the Emperours army, and that commanded by Generall Tilly, of the Catholique League the 7. of September, 1631

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1089466

German mercenaries in Poland Marek Szyszko

 Marek Szyszko – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia

Kriegskunst zu Fuß c1615

 https://digital.deutsches-museum.de/item/BV011004519

Kriegskunst zu Fuß

"Soldats au repos dans une auberge", Jean Michelin, vers 1656. Musée du Louvre (Louvre, RF 1938 62)

 

Pikeman. This figure is part of the collection at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Austria