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17th-century English soldiers (1 C, 79 P) Pages in category "17th-century soldiers" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
17th-century soldiers (2 C, 52 P) * Women in 17th-century warfare (1 C, 76 P) A. 17th-century Austrian military personnel (4 P) C. 17th-century Chinese military ...
17th-century English soldiers (1 C, 79 P) W. ... Pages in category "17th-century English military personnel" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 ...
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17th-century military history by country (9 C) Military installations established in the 17th century (2 C, 7 P) Military installations closed in the 17th century (1 C, 2 P)
First Muster, Spring 1637, Massachusetts Bay Colony Rangers in North America served in the 17th and 18th-century wars between colonists and Native American tribes. Regular soldiers were not accustomed to frontier warfare and so Ranger companies were developed.
Consisting predominantly of pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, their front line was formed by Doppelsöldner ("double-pay men") renowned for their use of Zweihänder and arquebus. They formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Army from the late 15th century to the early 17th century, fighting in the Habsburg-Valois wars , the ...
Without the international "open market" for professional soldiers, the Republic, with its population of about 1.5 million in the 17th century, would simply have lacked the manpower base to compete with countries like Spain (10 million inhabitants at the time) and France (20 million).