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- The harquebusier was the most common form of cavalry found throughout Western Europe during the early to mid-17th century. Early harquebusiers were characterised...
- Lobster-tailed pot helmet, also known as the zischägge, horseman's pot and harquebusier's pot, was a type of combat helmet. It was derived from an Ottoman Turkish...
- mercenaries, namely German Landsknecht pikemen and professional Spanish harquebusiers, sent by Charles V, who was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Queen...
- German Reiters, added one or more pistols, while other cavalry, such as harquebusiers, tried various shorter, lightened versions of the infantry arquebus...
- Rus' and the streletskoye voysko (Стрелецкое Войско), the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550. The exact meaning of the term "Guards"...
- in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2013. Carabinier Cuir****ier Gendarmerie Harquebusier Hobilar Hussar Motorized infantry Reiter – A type of pistol-armed cavalry...
- service of the Imperial Army, including the majority of Wallenstein's harquebusiers. The name came to be used as a generic term for light cavalry from the...
- Cavaliers in the early years of the war. The unit was re-equipped as Harquebusiers in 1644, and absorbed into the New Model Army in April 1645, when Haselrig...
- awaited the Spanish army to arrive. The Spanish sent a screen of 500 harquebusiers to cover their advance; but soon the two unruly mutineer regiments in...
- speed and ferocity of their charge. They were equipped like the typical harquebusier light cavalry of their era; armed with a broadsword and two wheellock...