Warfare of the Early Modern Era: Pike, Great Northern War, Lance, War of the Polish Succession, Dutch States Army, Polish-Muscovite War

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 115. Chapters: Pike, Great Northern War, Lance, War of the Polish Succession, Dutch States Army, Polish-Muscovite War, Early modern warfare, Second Northern War, History of gunpowder, Army of Flanders, Moldavian Magnate Wars, Military Revolution, Smolensk War, Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars, Polish-Swedish wars, Northern Seven Years' War, Swiss mercenaries, Pike and shot, Star fort, Deluge, Russo-Polish War, Landsknecht, Polish-Ottoman War, Morion, Sanfedismo, Second Hundred Years' War, The Unknown War, Livonian campaign of Stephen Bathory, Russo-Turkish War, Polish-Russian War of 1792, Capeline, Kosi ski Uprising, Polish-Cossack-Tatar War, Siege of Ochakov, Buff coat, Kabinettskriege, Bases, De la Gardie Campaign, Push of pike, Hazara-i-Karlugh. Excerpt: The Dutch States Army (Dutch: ) was the army of the Dutch Republic. It was usually called this, because it was formally the army of the States-General of the Netherlands, the sovereign power of that federal republic. This mercenary army was brought to such a size and state of readiness that it was able to hold its own against the armies of the major European powers of the extended 17th century, Habsburg Spain and the France of Louis XIV, despite the fact that these powers possessed far larger military resources than the Republic. It played a major role in the Eighty Years' War (opposite the Spanish Army of Flanders) and in the wars of the Grand Alliance with France after 1672. Despite the fact that the standard work by Ten Raa and De Bas about the States Army in its title proudly proclaims that the foundation of the army was laid in the first year of the Dutch war of independence, 1568, modern historians put the start date later, between 1576 (the year in which the States-General joined the Dutch Revolt against Philip II of Spain, and started raising its own troops) and 1588 (the yea...