Pikeman's Tasset (right)
c. 1620–30
Overall: 33 x 32.4 cm (13 x 12 3/4 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1063.d
Pikemen formed the backbone of infantry tactics through the end of the English Civil Wars (1642–51). Since muskets alone were ineffective against cavalry charges, companies of pikemen, armed with pikes, or spears, of 12 to 16 feet in length, were deployed in defensive formatio...
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