Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Brigandine
Form of coat-of-plates with hundreds of small plates, partially covering each other. Mobile yet protective.
From Encyclopedia
- Bavin
- See Waster.
- Cross-guard
- See Cross.
- Steel
- An alloy of wrought iron and carbon, capable of being hardened by heating and then quenching (rapid cooling) in water. This hardening process could…
- Bayonet
- At the end of the seventeenth century the French introduced the socket bayonet. This contained a sleeve fitting round the barrel and was locked…
