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Definition of Pikemen
1. pikeman [n] - See also: pikeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikemen
Literary usage of Pikemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1809)
"With this arrangement all the essential operations of pikemen may be accomplished,
without manoeuvres for (lie change of front, «pon the simple principles ..."
2. Omitted Chapters of the History of England from the Death of Charles I to by Andrew Bisset (1864)
"Tothill show more exactly than appears from any authority I have before met with
the proportion which the musketeers at that time bore to the pikemen. ..."
3. Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation. by Jonah Barrington (1848)
"Walpole defeated and killed—General Fawcett defeated—General Dundas and the
Cavalry defeated by the pikemen—Captain ..."
4. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"The Macedonian pka- lanx is described by Polybius to be a square battail of
pikemen, consisting of sixteen in flank, and fire hundred in front ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"one circumstance not to be forgotten in the march of the city that day, when the
show by water was little inferior to the other by land, that the pikemen ..."
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