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Yet at Morgarten the Swiss massacred a Habsburg force. Armoured knights need an open battlefield to be effective, in crowded terrain a force made up of peasant
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Yet at Morgarten the Swiss massacred a Habsburg force. Armoured knights need an open battlefield to be effective, in crowded terrain a force made up of peasant fighters equipped with polearms is clearly superior.
- medium_burrito 6y agoPeut-etre fondue et racelette est la vraie potion magique?
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoMaybe fondue and hard cheese is the true magic potion. So even my bad French can get the translation - it what does it mean? :-) It smells like something out of Asterix - but what is the quote from?
- medium_burrito 6y agoNot a quote, just an Asterix reference- the savage tribes fighting off the (Holy) Roman Empire. Would be unseemly to make it in English.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoThank you:-)
- nl 6y agoPolearms were always very effective against mounted troops, if they were disciplined enough to use them together. Even in the Napoleonic wars the best defence against cavalry was the square with soldiers using bayonets on their muskets.