harquebusier

The later harquebusier was increasingly used in a shock role on the battlefield.

Later, towards the mid 17th century, the harquebusier became the standard type of cavalry found throughout western Europe.

Another harquebusier raised his gun and imitated the sound.

Throwing his helmet away, he strode forward a dozen paces and turned a startled harquebusier around.

The petronel was succeeded by a similarly armed cavalryman called the harquebusier.

The equipment of the harquebusier disappeared at different rates; the doglock carbine was replaced by the 'true' flintlock in the late 17th century.

The term Harquebusier was used to denote the most common form of cavalryman found in Western Europe during the early and mid 17th century.

Totney later possessed a great saddle, musket, pair of pistols and sword, suggesting he served as a harquebusier.

Another common name for it was the "harquebusier's pot", the harquebusier being the most common type of cavalry in Western Europe during the 17th century.

In England, in 1629, a harquebusier's armour cost one pound and six shillings, that of a cuirassier four pounds and ten shillings.

The second type of cavalry commonly used in Western Europe at the time was the harquebusier; a light, firearm-equipped cavalryman named after the long firearm they used.

The term harquebusier fell out of use gradually, harquebusiers becoming part of the undifferentiated "horse" or, in French, "cavalerie" of the early and mid 18th century.

In the late 16th century the harquebusier was envisioned, like the similar and earlier petronel, as a support for more heavily armoured cavalry, demi-lancers or pistol-armed cuirassiers and reiters.

The harquebusier would have been armed with a doglock carbine, hung from a swivel attached to a baldric, pistols in saddle holsters and a stout, straight-bladed, sword.

Her father, Gaspar Flores, was a Spanish Harquebusier (cavalry), and her mother, Maria de Oliva, was born in Lima.

A doglock carbine was the principal weapon of the harquebusier, the most numerous type of cavalry in the armies of the Thirty Years War and English Civil War era.

Although the phrase "Ironside" suggests heavily armoured men, Cromwell's troops were equipped in the common cavalry style of the day, termed the harquebusier, with armour limited to back- and breastplate and "pot" helmet.

A nearby harquebusier, who had just finished reloading his gun, heard the sound and on some sudden impulse he raised the weapon and shook it carefully so that the bells at the ends of the ribbons rang as well.

A more wealthy harquebusier may have worn a buff coat (the finest quality buff coats were often more expensive than an iron cuirass) under his armour and a metal gauntlet to protect his bridle hand and forearm.

The typical harquebusier would have worn an iron cuirass, with a breast and backplate, and an open faced helmet such as a lobster tailed pot; the fashion conscious could replace the helmet with a broad-brimmed felt hat, often worn over a concealed iron skullcap or secrete.

She was one of the many children of Gaspar Flores, a harquebusier in the Imperial Spanish army, born in San Germán on the island of San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico), and his wife, María de Oliva, a native of Lima.