Re: [FT] (LONG) The Balance of Power -- Fighters and a Defense

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> Which means that for some four centuries, there
> weren't any "actual
> soldiers"... there was quite a bit of moralizing on
> this subject during
> the 12th to 15th centuries, and no wheellock pistols
> available for
> purchase <g>

Of course not.	They were out riding down infantry
like they didn't exist.  No one in Europe was using
crossbowmen as more than an adjunct to knights.  When
knights were threatened as 'lords of the battlefield'
it was by pikemen.  At which time there were pistols
starting to become available.

John

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