Pike and Shot Tactics 1590-1660

Name: Pike and Shot Tactics 1590-1660
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ISBN: 9781846034695

ISBN-10: 1846034698

ISBN-13: 9781846034695

Edition: 2010

Authors: Keith Roberts, Adam Hook

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 3/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction


The Contemporary General's Perspective


Sieges and field armies


Campaign preparations and rehearsal


The decisive battle - Dutch caution and Swedish aggressiveness


The German doctrine - multiple battle lines - field artillery - terrain


Cavalry


The infantry confrontation - command and control - broken-country fighting


Outpost warfare


The Spanish Army


Infantry formations


Cavalry: Spanish and German - French Huguenot developments


The Dutch Reforms


The Dutch battalion - the distinction between administrative and tactical organization - the Dutch company


The Dutch firing system


Battle plans - the Dutch brigade


Cavalry and artillery


The Thirty Years' War


Dissemination of Prince Maurice's reforms to belligerents, by veterans, instructors and translations


Spanish conservatism


From Denmark to Sweden


The Swedish Intervention


The army of Gustavus Adolphus: unit organization - firing systems - cavalry and artillery


Swedish brigade deployment


The Swedish army in battle: Breitenfeld, 1631


The English Civil Wars


Dutch, Swedish and German influences


Monk, Barriffe, Elton and Watts


Prince Rupert at Edgehill, 1642


Marston Moor, Donnington and Naseby, 1644-45


The last word


Index