Perhaps one of the driving factors in the rise of arquebuses was that the previous siege revolution made commanders feel that they had to innately aggressive in their battle tactics. It also made commanders see guns as the future of warfare, even if firearms at the moment still had some drawbacks. This mentality resulted in that the defensive tactics of the fifteen century saw a huge decrease in their effectiveness when artillery emerged on the battlefield at the battle of Crécy in 1346. Siege guns effectively tore through castles. Now, fortifications that had taken decades to construct, were considerably less useful. Prove of the success of siege guns can be seen in that by the 1450’s, the commanders no longer used the Trebuchet. Now armies
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First, Swiss pikemen composed almost the entirety of the Duke of Nemours army. This is important because, at the time, the European community regarded Swiss pikemen as one of in not the deadliest troops of their time. In particular, their stand-fast resolve and perfection of wedge battle formations were deadly effective at stopping cavalry, while still being able to protect themselves from enemy archer fire. Part of the reasoning for the strength of the Swiss army was that Swiss peasants used the halberd in their daily …show more content…
In the ones of L.F. Taylor, author of The Art of War in Italy, “the foot soldier succeeded to the international position which had been held by the mailed knight.” Given how radical this statement is, it should not be surprising that not all societies were on board with this new kind of thinking. The French still relented their soldiers early on after the Battle of Cerignola. An example of this is during the Siege of Padua in 1509 when a chronicler at the time recorded how the French captains trembled at the thought of putting the nobles alongside the foot soldiers in battle. It should be quickly noted here, that most of these common soldiers were simple peasants, most of which who were properly more concerned, (like the Japanese Peasants), in returning home to maintain their harvest, of which their entire livelihoods depended on. Due to this mentality shift, military leaders gradually started to change their military tactics into where the core unit of the army was no longer the cavalry but instead was now the
First, Swiss pikemen composed almost the entirety of the Duke of Nemours army. This is important because, at the time, the European community regarded Swiss pikemen as one of in not the deadliest troops of their time. In particular, their stand-fast resolve and perfection of wedge battle formations were deadly effective at stopping cavalry, while still being able to protect themselves from enemy archer fire. Part of the reasoning for the strength of the Swiss army was that Swiss peasants used the halberd in their daily …show more content…
In the ones of L.F. Taylor, author of The Art of War in Italy, “the foot soldier succeeded to the international position which had been held by the mailed knight.” Given how radical this statement is, it should not be surprising that not all societies were on board with this new kind of thinking. The French still relented their soldiers early on after the Battle of Cerignola. An example of this is during the Siege of Padua in 1509 when a chronicler at the time recorded how the French captains trembled at the thought of putting the nobles alongside the foot soldiers in battle. It should be quickly noted here, that most of these common soldiers were simple peasants, most of which who were properly more concerned, (like the Japanese Peasants), in returning home to maintain their harvest, of which their entire livelihoods depended on. Due to this mentality shift, military leaders gradually started to change their military tactics into where the core unit of the army was no longer the cavalry but instead was now the