It was in a struggle of this kind that the Landsknechts lost a full half of their strength, when the Swiss bore them down at Novara.
The Landsknechts and their rivalry with the Swiss.
The landsknechts and hackbut-men of Charles V and Ferdinand of Austria proved much more formidable foes to the Sultans than the gallant but undisciplined light cavalry[124] of Hungary.
In spite of their defeats the Landsknechts kept the field, and finally took their revenge when the Swiss recoiled in disorder from the fatal trenches of Bicocca.
But when they came to the last ditch and bank, along which were ranged the landsknechts of Frundsberg, they found an obstacle which they could not pass.
All they be good for with their show of fight is to give honest landsknechts a good reason to fall on to the plunder, if so be one is hampered by a squeamish prince.
Nay, I deemed thee none--but heed my words--captains of landsknechts in kermesses are scarce to be trusted.
Nay, I deemed thee none--but heed my words--captains of landsknechtsin kermesses are scarce to be trusted.
The Landsknechts and the Romagnols of Italy, imitated and rivalled them, though as a rule developing more front and less depth.
For mere skirmishing the Swiss and Landsknechts had arquebusiers enough, without needing to call on the masses of Gascons, &c.
The modern army owes far more of its organization and administrative methods to the Landsknechts ("men of the country," as distinct from foreigners) than to the Swiss.
Probably the oldest line regiments in Europe are those descended from the famous tercios, whose formation marks the beginning of military establishments, just as the Landsknechts were the founders of military manners and customs.
A corps of Landsknechts was usually raised by a system resembling that of "indents," commissions being issued by the sovereign to leaders of repute to enlist men.
This detachment in turn followed up its advantage until as Francis himself expressed it, "the whole camp turned out" to aid the landsknechts and "hunted out" the Swiss.
Francis himself at the head of two hundred gendarmes charged and drove back two large bodies of Swiss which were pressing the landsknechts hard.
The landsknechts retrieved their first day's defeat by their conduct on the second day.
God willed it otherwise; the German reiters and landsknechts refused to go farther, and said their oath was to go against the Duke of Alba and not against France.
His army was not exclusively a French one, for German landsknechts and Swiss mercenaries also accompanied it.
The landsknechts in the French army for a while stood firm, till a sortie of Leyva from the beleaguered city took them in the rear, and the French army broke.
But Pescara reformed his Spanish infantry; the German landsknechts under Frundsberg supported them, and the French men-at-arms were driven back.
The grave landsknechts were amazed: no enemy was perceptible in the misty dawn, and they were not accustomed to receive orders from a squire.
The rebellious landsknechts from Flynderborg were handed over to the castellan of Helsingborg, who sent them, carefully bound, in another vessel to Orekrog.
As evening approached the tumults and contentions which occurred between these partisans and the populace became so frequent, that the town-governor was compelled to call on the royal landsknechts to assist him in keeping order.
Tarry a little," said Rimaardson, while he beckoned a couple of landsknechts to approach.
The landsknechts who held watch at the castle-gate and by the palace-stairs recognised the drost's squire, and instantly admitted him.
The uproarious landsknechts pressed forward, uttering defiance, and shouting lustily to one another: "We are free Danes, and will not suffer ourselves to be cowed by three rovers.
Mailed horsemen and landsknechts blocked up every avenue to the castle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landsknechts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
