Showing posts with label pike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pike. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 August 2026

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

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  Handling the pike

Commands for the exercise of foot, ... 1690

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Thursday, 23 July 2026

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

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  Jan van Bijlert - Wikipedia

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

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  Jean Michelin - Wikipedia

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

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Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Tudor pikemen

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  Wars of Louis Quatorze: British School, 16th century Jephthah's Daughter c. 1560-80
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Charge your pike

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 Used an old pic of the 1685 Society at Glastonbury tithe barn. 
Monday, 4 May 2026

Anybody know where these images are from?

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 Dave says English Broadside ballad.
Sunday, 3 May 2026

The military discipline wherein is martially showne ... 1642

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Somerset Trained Bands

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  Somerset Trained Bands - Wikipedia  Fought at Newburn .  Somerset Trained Bands — Grokipedia
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Vrancx AI

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  Sebastiaen Vrancx - Wikipedia
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Michael van Meer's Album Amicorum, 1614-1617

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  Category:Album amicorum of Michael van Meer - Wikimedia Commons
Friday, 24 April 2026

Pike postures

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 Anybody know where online I could find these images? I think they are Wallhausen but not in the editions I have found on line.
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Wednesday, 22 April 2026

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

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  ⁣Digitale Sammlungen: Künstliche Picquen-Handlung
Friday, 17 April 2026

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

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  https://digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib171251-165777 Set forth in postures with the words of command and briefe instructions for the rig...
Thursday, 9 April 2026

Push of pike at Breitenfeld

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  ''They seeing us marching towards them, they advanced likewise towards us, and came so close one to another that joyning battalion...
Sunday, 29 March 2026

German mercenaries in Poland Marek Szyszko

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  Marek Szyszko – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Kriegskunst zu Fuß c1615

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  https://digital.deutsches-museum.de/item/BV011004519 Kriegskunst zu Fuß
Friday, 13 March 2026

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

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Monday, 23 February 2026

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

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