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Warfare in Elizabethan England
Title: Warfare in Elizabethan England
Category: History
Details: Words: 220 | Pages: 0.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Warfare in Elizabethan England
Warfare in Elizabethan England
War was a common thing in Elizabethan England with a gruelling 40-Year war going on in Italy between Charles V of Spain and Francis I of France.
The front line on most battlefields would consist entirely of Pike men; these were the most common of all soldiers and the most deadly. Each carried a wooden pike tipped with metal that could be as long as 5.5metres. Behind these Pike men would …showed first 75 words of 220 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 220 total…new lightweight cannon that fired iron cannonballs or packets of bullets called grapeshot. These replaced the older cannons that required several horses to move and had only a short range. With the new cannons came new strategies, and new fortresses. The fortifications became deep trenches protected by the heaped up earth on one side. New forts became smaller and not as tall, they were designed to withstand cannonballs and became basically one big gun platform.
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