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One of the first and most important major uses of cannons to over take traditional walls of a city.
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Showed that Swiss strategy of JUST having pike men wasn't all that great and that you needed fire power to back them up or they'll be destroyed by guns
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Oar-Sail ship. Longer than a galley and more armed.
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Traditionally galleys were used as large battery rams, but in the 1550's they started to have 1 sixty pound cannon,2 sixteen pound cannons, 15 lesser cannons
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Bernardino de Escalante. Merit needs to be in the Spanish Military
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By the Spanish in Holland (Mechelen). Saved cost because you could save your veteran soldiers and didn't have to hire new soldiers.
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Don Sancho de Lodonno
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Wrote a very technical work on sieges and artillery. Don Diego de Alava y Viamont
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forces armies to have to spread out for both defense and offense. Instead of Squares that are fifty men deep you had musket lines that were ten people deep. Now higher chance to engage in hand to hand combat and demanded more discipline and unison in troops.
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Started with the Dutch, they were sailing ships that were fast and had lots of guns.
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Battle of Breitenfeld 1631. Also showed that tight square formations aren't always the best (30 Year's War). Also Sweden could keep a constant musket firing with six regiments.
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Shows that 1) Pike and Shot formation can still destroy the more thin lined strategy of the Swedish forces. 2) You can lose nearly your entire army and still recover and fight another day