. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. lete Armour. Fig. 53— Arquebusier of the Sixteenth Century. After Cesare Vecellio, Degli Habiti Antichi e Moderni : 8vo, 1590. third stronger than it really was. At last, however, in 1517, there issuedfrom this chaotic confusion the first germ of a proper system of supervisionand control of all matters relating to war. If the tacticians of Italy were the first to fathom theoretically thescience of war, it was the Swiss, under Marshal Trivulce, the Spaniards, 62 WAR AND ARMIES. under Gonzalvez of Cordova, and
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. lete Armour. Fig. 53— Arquebusier of the Sixteenth Century. After Cesare Vecellio, Degli Habiti Antichi e Moderni : 8vo, 1590. third stronger than it really was. At last, however, in 1517, there issuedfrom this chaotic confusion the first germ of a proper system of supervisionand control of all matters relating to war. If the tacticians of Italy were the first to fathom theoretically thescience of war, it was the Swiss, under Marshal Trivulce, the Spaniards, 62 WAR AND ARMIES. under Gonzalvez of Cordova, and finally the Flemish, under the Dukeof Alba, who successfully restored the military combinations of ancientGreece. They were the first to manoeuvre in dense masses and in battalions,and they were the first to successfully employ the column formation of pikemen of France followed their example, while the troops armed withprojectile weapons fought as skirmishers in the van, or in lines two or threedeep. It was not, however, till Henry time that any considerable body. Fig. 54.—The Reapers of Death, an Allegory of War, from an Engraving of Hans-Sebald Beham(Sixteenth Century).—Collection of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot. of troops was seen capable of advancing in close column without breakingits formation, and it was not till Louis time that the regiment, firstintroduced in the preceding reign, became a recognised permanent militaryunit. Towards the close of the fifteenth century the French native cavalrystill consisted entirely of heavy troopers. The Albanians, the mercenariesof whom the French light cavalry were composed, sold their services, manand horse, as the Swiss sold theirs, man and halbert. Charles VIII. enrolled
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