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- Arquebus
- Also called
Harquebus,
Hackbut or
Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Aventail
- A curtain of mail attached by means of staples (ver-velles) around the base of a
helmet (especially the
basinet
), and…
- Polearm
- Also military fork. Consists of two parts - a long haft and a head. Head comes in many forms - most often two parallel or slightly "V"…
- Gladius
- The Legions patterned their short swords after those of the Spanish
Celts. The historian, Polybius, says they were introduced into the army
during…
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