10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON FOOTMEN»
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Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of ...
Every ensign 400 strong, to consist of 100 armed footmen, 100 hackbutters, and
200 common footmen, and to have 650 pays a month , each pay reckoned at 4
Philippus. Also double pay monthly for 80 horse. Also, for the muster of the ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, 1907
2
The General Historie of the Turkes from the First Beginning ...
... part of that win g,began a-* fresh to renew the battell,and valiantly to withstand
the Persians; and with their harquebusiers (wherewith the Persian horsemen
were wonderfully terrified) draue them headlong vpon the Turkes common
footmen.
3
A Companion to the Medieval World
8 One reason for this wide range of opinion is a related dispute over whether the
main power of Frankish armies consisted of armored cavalrymen or common
footmen, which in turn is a part of two larger and still fiercely contested debates:
first, ...
Carol Lansing, Edward D. English, 2010
4
Divine Hammer: Kingpriest Trilogy, Volume Two
knighthood, he usually led regiments of a thousand men or more, both knights
and Scatas, the common footmen of the imperial army. Tonight, though, a
thousand men would not do. He only needed these few to bring down the Skull
Brethren.
Shoulder to shoulder with common footmen, the knights laid in with gleaming
swords. They cut a wedge in the enemy lines and pressed onward. The last few
bravehearted Saxons could not stand before that onslaught of steel. Retreat
turned ...
6
The generall historie of the Turkes
... lieutenant in E v a o p n, seauen Sanzackes,siin which were the two WhoU-im
brethren, who labouring the one to rescue the Other were borhsitogither flaine .
Beside his common footmen of whom he made least reckoning, he lost most part
...
7
East London tabernacle pulpit, sermons preached by Archibald ...
God's pardoning mercy is like the waters of the red sea when it rolled upon the
Egyptian host; the captains and the charioteers were as much overwhelmed as
the common footmen. The impetuous tide knew no distinction, it drowned
Pharaoh ...
Archibald Geikie Brown, 1873
8
Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid
mounted knights and five hundred noble squires, besides many common
footmen, and all were well equipped for peace or for war, as the case might
require. The Infantes had been duly summoned to the Cortes and warned that
they should ...
Mary Wright Plummer, 1910
9
A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the fifteenth ...
Beside his common footmen, of whom he made least reckoning, he lost most part
of his lllirian, Macedonian, Servian, Epirot, Thessalian, and Thracian horsemen,
the undoubted flower and strength of his army, which were in that mortall battell ...
Charles Grey, Giosofat Barbaro, Giovanni Maria degli Angiolelli, 1873
10
Journal of the American Oriental Society
The common footmen do nothing without the ' headman' to direct them (mukhya,
vii. 170. 46). All the forces, once in action, tight oveT the field indiscriminately.
There is nothing to show that the cavalry fought exclusively as dependent aiders
of ...
