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This is an example of a battle axe that was tailored for the use of a mounted knight. The wooden haft is modern. A battle axe (also battle-axe, battle ax, or battle-ax) is an axe specifically designed for combat. Battle axes were designed differently to utility axes, with blades more akin to cleavers than to wood axes.
The Dane axe or long axe (including Danish axe and English long axe) is a type of European early medieval period two-handed battle axe with a very long shaft, around 0.9–1.2 metres (2 ft 11 in – 3 ft 11 in) at the low end to 1.5–1.7 metres (4 ft 11 in – 5 ft 7 in) or more at the long end.
The Battle Axe culture is believed to have brought Indo-European languages and Indo-European culture to southern Scandinavia. The fusion of the Battle Axe culture with the native agricultural and hunter-gatherer cultures of the region spawned the Nordic Bronze Age, which is considered the ancestral civilization of the Germanic peoples. [9]
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No. 7 Squadron IAF, nicknamed "Battle Axes" The 78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), also known as the Battleaxe Division; 74 Battery (The Battle Axe Company) Royal Artillery; The 65th Infantry Division (United States), nicknamed "Battle-Axe" Carrier Air Wing Three, an aircraft carrier air wing of the United States Navy, nicknamed "Battle Axe"
Reps. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; and Angie Craig, D-Minn., all announced challenges to more senior Democrats for committee leadership ...
Certain aspects of the deities were altered to make them more generic – for example: the "Core" Heironeous favors the longsword (in order to make the favored weapon of the "God of Chivalry" more traditionally knight-like), as contrasted with the original "Greyhawk" Heironeous, who favors the battleaxe. The designation of "greater" vs ...
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