10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULVERINEER»
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culverineer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
culverineer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Medieval Warfare: A History
Each lance was supported by three infantrymen, a crossbow-man, a culverineer (
or arquebusier) and a pikeman. In order to supplement the service of soldiers
from his own territories, Charles recruited lances on a very large scale from Italy,
...
2
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
However, the diarist of the journal oft/1e Siege did preserve for us some notes
worth recording here, for they help us to recapture the atmosphere of the time
and place. There were, for example, the exploits of master Jean, the “culverineer”
, ...
3
The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45
In each of thesewe shall put two hand cannons and a competent culverineer and,
inaddition, a trumpetandsix oarsmen orboatmen to row them. The night will
bedark. Ishall go up riverto the placewhere the fires begin, and from there I shall
send ...
Professor Colin Imber, 2013
4
Charles the Bold: The Last Valois Duke of Burgundy
Although each lance was said to be of six persons, in fact it comprised a man-at-
arms with his mounted page and swordsman (coustillier); three mounted archers;
and a crossbowman, a culverineer and a pikeman on foot: that is, nine men, ...
He turned and addressed the culverineer. 'Good! A fine attempt. But tell me,
Gunner, and forgive me for expressing myself so honestly - do you think you have
hit one solid target in the entire assault?' 'It is hard to tell, Sir,' the culverineer said.
6
Gustavus Adolphus: A History of the Art of War from Its ...
ly crude, being merely a gun-barrel lashed to a stick and set off vv Mounted
Culverineer. by a match; but by the end of the sixteenth century they had all
grown to have a lock, and the form of the weapon began to approach the musket.
20 THE ...
Theodore Ayrault Dodge, 1895
7
Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a ...
The gun itself is of wrought iron, and it is pierced near the breech by a touch-hole
which expands externally ; in this is placed the priming, which is fired by a match
carried for that purpose at his belt by the culverineer. Two men were generally ...
Joseph Paul Lacombe, Charles Boutell, 1870
8
The Age of Chivalry: Castles, forts, and artillery, 8th to ...
8. Hand-gun fitted with a serpentine. The fact that it appears in a 15th-century
manuscript is proof that this important improvement to the firing system is very
much older than is popularly believed. 9. 15th-century culverineer. 1o. Gun
dating from ...
Liliane Funcken, Fred Funcken, 1983
9
Racinet's Full-color Pictorial History of Western Costume: ...
13: French culverineer, late 15th century. 14: Armor of the high French nobility,
late 15th century. 15: French mounted bowman, 15th century. 16: French knight,
reign of Francois I, 16th century. PLATE 36 • French Military Dress, 15th and 16th
...
Should our Cairo bombardier, cannoneer, culverineer, or whatever he is, be right,
that "the tank is now almost in the position of the calvalry at the end of the last war
" — what was that position? Shakespeare answers : Big Mars seems bankrupt ...
John Frederick Charles Fuller, 1944
