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  2. Landsknecht - Wikipedia

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    The Tross were the camp followers or baggage train who travelled with each Landsknecht unit, carrying military necessities, the food, and the belongings of each soldier and his family. The Tross was made up of women, children and some craftsmen. Women and young boys set up Landsknecht camps, cooked, mended injuries, and dug and cleaned latrines ...

  3. Georg von Frundsberg - Wikipedia

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    Georg von Frundsberg [a] (24 September 1473 – 20 August 1528) was a German military and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of Habsburg. An early modern proponent of infantry tactics, he established his reputation in active service during the Italian Wars under Emperor Maximilian I and his successor ...

  4. List of headgear - Wikipedia

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    Cavalier hat, also chevaliers – wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich plumes; Chapeau-bras, also chapeau-de-bras – 18th- to early-19th-century folding bicorne hat carried under one arm; Chaperon – a series of hats that evolved in 14th- and 15th-century Europe from the medieval hood of the same name; Cocked hat

  5. List of hat styles - Wikipedia

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    A hard felt hat with a rounded crown created in 1850 by Lock's of St James's, the hatters to Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, for his servants. More commonly known as a Derby in the United States. [19] Breton: A woman's hat with round crown and deep brim turned upwards all the way round. Said to be based on hats worn by Breton agricultural ...

  6. Peter Hagendorf - Wikipedia

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    A page from Peter Hagendorf's diary Sack of Magdeburg 1631, in a painting of 1646. Peter Hagendorf was a German mercenary soldier in the Thirty Years' War.He wrote a diary which gives a unique historic record of the life in the contemporary army from the viewpoint of a simple Landsknecht.

  7. Katzbalger - Wikipedia

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    The katzbalger is a side-arm, often used by pikemen, archers, and crossbowmen as a last resort if the enemy were to draw too close for bows or pikes to be effective.. Mostly a cutting sword, the rounded tips on many examples are ill-suited to thrusting, while the flat, broad blades are specialized for cutting.

  8. Should kids in a family get the same amount of holiday gifts ...

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    “I won’t say his name,” Hoda teased, referring to Jenna’s only son, Hal, 5. Jenna and her husband, Henry Hager, are also parents of Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9.

  9. Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945) - Wikipedia

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    Color poster showing the insignia, patches, hats and uniforms of the German Army. The poster features two figures: one is a German soldier wearing the gray-green wool field uniform and the other is a German soldier wearing the olive cotton tropical (Afrika Korps) uniform. Also depicted are the national emblems worn on headgear.