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Experienced and well-equipped soldiers, receiving double a normal Landsknecht 's pay and getting the title Doppelsöldner, [29] made up a quarter of each Fähnlein. 50 of these men were armed with a halberd or with a 66-inch (170 cm) two-handed sword called a Zweihänder while another fifty were arquebusiers or crossbowmen.
A Swiss peasant used a halberd to kill Charles the Bold, [8] the Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Nancy, decisively ending the Burgundian Wars. [9] A member of the Swiss Guard with a halberd in the Vatican. The halberd was the primary weapon of the early Swiss armies in the 14th and early 15th centuries. [7]
Free Men (French: Les Hommes libres) is a 2011 French war drama film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other Muslims from the Maghreb in Paris played in the French Resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944).
Beginning in June 2005, Logo TV has been broadcasting programming of interest to the LGBT community. The network broadcasts a blend of original programming and syndicated fare previously broadcast on other networks. Logo offers content from a wide variety of genres, including drama, comedy, reality and documentary.
YouTube is the official YouTube channel for the American video-sharing platform of the same name, spotlighting videos and events on the platform. Events shown on the channel include YouTube Comedy Week and the YouTube Music Awards .
YouTube personality Issa, better known by his stage name Twaimz, has quickly amassed over 2 million followers and 146 million video views in just three years. His meteoric rise to success is in ...
Later on, the Swiss added the pike to better repel heavy cavalry and roll over enemy infantry formations, with the halberd, longsword, or the Swiss dagger used for closer combat. The German Landsknechte , who imitated Swiss warfare methods during the early 16th century, also used the pike, supplemented by the halberd.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA; Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, romanized: al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel groups in the Syrian civil war [39] [40] founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces.