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 1 2|  strength and power in their pikes. The Romans ((in addition
 2 2|       They therefore take up pikes as arms, which are most
 3 2|    defending itself, and use pikes and swords for offense.
 4 2|   apt to defend himself from pikes, and enter among them, than
 5 2|      hand to hand with their pikes low, penetrated the (ranks
 6 2|     Romans, and two thousand pikes and a thousand gunners like
 7 2|    me; for I would place the pikes either in the front lines
 8 2|  serve myself to back up the pikes and to win the engagement,
 9 2|  struck by the points of the pikes, either he will by himself
10 2|  each part. And as they used pikes, halberds, bows, and light
11 2| bearers), and a hundred with pikes, and will be called pikemen:
12 2|   would make a thousand with pikes, whom I will call extraordinary
13 2|     forming the company, the pikes are situated in the rear;
14 2|  where he wants to place the pikes, and who should carry them,
15 2|      those (Heads) who carry pikes stay with the pikemen. Behind
16 3|     a Battalion two thousand pikes, which are the arms of the
17 3|   company have five ranks of pikes (pikemen) in front, and
18 3|     encounter would meet the pikes, which I would hope would
19 3|   completely. First, because pikes are useful against cavalry,
20 3|      Placing, therefore, our pikes in the front and the shields (
21 3|   can no longer manage their pikes: so that, according to the
22 3|    at most five, because the pikes are nine arm lengths long
23 3|      though they do not have pikes as the others do? And if