Soldier carrying his pike with his left hand at his right side, the point angled upwards (no. 13), ca. 1600
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A soldier, full-length, carrying a pike (lance) with his left hand at his right side, the point angled upwards (no. 13), ca. 1600. This is the second movement for lowering the pike to pass under an obstruction. Plate 13 in the instructions for handling the pike: Brief instruction upon the contrefaictinges, concerning the right use, of all what a Souldier needeth to know in handling of the Pike. Part of the illustrations in an English edition of J. de Gheyn's Wapenhandelinghe: J. de Gheyn, The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes and pikes after the ordre of Maurits Prince of Orange, 's-Gravenhage 1608. Military affairs around 1600.
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