Sentence examples for pikemen from inspiring English sources

Screening was provided by light troops moving in front, cohesion by pikemen in the third and rearmost rank.

Gone were the days when one nation specialized in heavy cavalry, another in light cavalry, still another in pikemen, archers, or crossbowmen.

There was a constant tendency to increase the number of musketeers at the expense of pikemen until, by the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618 48), their proportions had become about equal.

To meet Edward's army, Robert gathered his smaller force, consisting of perhaps 7,000 infantry (primarily pikemen) and several hundred light horse, at the New Park, a hunting preserve a mile or two (1.6 to 3.2 km) south of Stirling.

Integrating mobility with shock, their squares of hundreds of pikemen and halberdiers could rebuff heavy cavalry charges, allowing the artisans and peasants who made up the squares to take down knights.

In a contemporary print, uniformed pikemen guard the field and preserve decorum.

Landsknecht, plural Landsknechte or Landsknechts, German mercenary pikeman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

All of his lessons were high-speed dramatic performances in which, armed with a few basic props – a rolled-up gown, a window pole, a pile of dusty books – he assumed the role of prelate or pikeman, unscrupulous courtier or threadbare peasant.

The heavy oak front door swings open and there you are, in the dining hall, suits of armour and a pikeman's uniform flanking the fireplaces and a dark Cromwellian helmet adorning the table.

If Murdoch and Dacre on their white chargers with you in the background (probably a pikeman) were really about freedom of speech they would have covered the hacking scandal, which had celebrity, royals, politicians, criminals, conspiracy, murder victims – everything their papers love to cover.

A poster called Pikeman didn't like that.