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The Exercise with Shield and Spear: The Soldier Brings the Spear into Position in Three Times, Third Movement with the Spear Straight Forward (No. 9), 1618
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Exercise with shield and spear: the soldier brings the spear into position in three movements, third movement with the spear straight forward, 1618. Part of the illustrations in: Adam van Breen, Nassauische Waffenhandelung, 1618, plate no. 9. Military affairs around 1600.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe exercitie met schild en spies: de soldaat brengt in drie tijden de spies in positie, derde beweging met de spies recht vooruit (nr. 9), 1618. 1616 - 1618. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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