Warfare through time 1500-1750

Weapons
1. Cannon
2. Musket
3. Pikes
4. Swords
5. Pistols
Tactics
1. See battle notes above
Composition of army
1. Pikemen
2. Cavalry
3. Infantry
4. 200,000 armed men
Recruitment and training
1. New model army
  1. National army, pay soldiers regularly and give successful soldiers command instead of politicians
  2. Pressed (forced)
Battle of Naseby
1. Recruitment and training
  1. New model army regularly trained
  2. Trained hands
  3. New model army
2. Composition
  1. Limited in size 2:1 infantry to cavalry
3. Weapons
  1. Matchlock musket (some flintlock)
  2. Pikes
  3. Artillery
  4. Bayonets
4. Tactics
  1. Push of pike
    1. Pike square
  2. Dutch countermarch
  3. Cromwell cavalry charge proved decisive
  4. Artillery used but ineffective
  5. Swedish Salvo
    1. 3 lines shoot and reload
5. Impact on civilians
  1. Raids
  2. Damage
  3. Free quarter (troops rest with civilians)
  4. Taxes
  5. Requisition (demand for supplies)
Impact of war on civilians

Resource summary

	Created by Toby Gosden over 6 years ago