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The Tross were the camp followers or baggage train who travelled with each Landsknecht unit, carrying military necessities, the food, and the belongings of each soldier and his family. The Tross was made up of women, children and some craftsmen. Women and young boys set up Landsknecht camps, cooked, mended injuries, and dug and cleaned latrines ...
By the 16th century, late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War, Burgundian Wars and the late phase of the Reconquista, dominated European warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss, the Spanish Tercio and the Landsknecht mercenary pikemen.
Free by landsknecht custom Let the forlorn vanguard trek forwards to the storm, we follow tightly packed! Die Mauern wir erklettern, Die Türme wir zerschmettern Und in die Stadt hinein. Wer uns den Lauf will hemmen, Sich uns entgegenstemmen Der soll des Teufels sein! We climb the walls, we shatter the towers - storming right into the town.
There are tons of woodcuttings of landsknechts out there -- surely we can do better than images of models of fantasy soldier models and computer game pictures. I'll dredge some images up and replace those with more historically appropriate ones. Larry Dunn 20:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
The full Landsknecht contingent of Francis I. army in 1515 was initially 17,000 men strong, composed of 12,000 pikemen, 2,000 arquebusiers, 2,000 two-handed swordsmen, and 1,000 halberdiers. Landsknecht contingents are organized in companies or Fähnlein of up to 500, with actual numbers often being lower than the nominal full strength.
Articles related to Landsknechts, German mercenaries used in pike and shot formations during the early modern period.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.
Ulrich Schmidl or Schmidel (1514 in Straubing - 1579 in Regensburg) was a German Landsknecht, conquistador, explorer, chronicler, and councilman. Schmidl was, beside Hans Staden , one of the few Landsknechts who wrote down their experiences of travel in the New World .
A modern recreation of a mid-17th century company of pikemen. By that period, pikemen would primarily defend their unit's musketeers from enemy cavalry.. A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages [1] and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet ...