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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Druzhina on 25 February 2017, 10:35:55 AM

Title: 16th century Swiss
Post by: Druzhina on 25 February 2017, 10:35:55 AM
Prints of Swiss soldiers of the Renaissance by Urs Graf, early 16th century (http://www.warfare2.netai.net/16/Swiss_by_Urs_Graf.htm)
Swiss Schutzenfahn (Shooter's Flag) with Arquebus & Crossbow Motifs, 1513 (http://www.warfare2.netai.net/16/Swiss-Zurich_Schutzenfahn-1513.htm)
French Gensdarmes & Aventuriers & Swiss Pikemen, Breydenbach's Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam, 1522 Ed. (http://www.warfare.netau.net/15/Breydenbach-52_Crusaders_at_Damietta_1522.htm)
Le Suysse, a French engraving of a Swiss soldier, 1567 (http://www.warfare2.netai.net/16/Suysse.htm)
'Swiss' in Renaissance Warfare by George Gush (http://www.warfare2.netai.net/Renaissance/09_Swiss.htm)  

Mirror site:
'Swiss' in Renaissance Warfare by George Gush (http://www.warfare.ihostfull.com/Renaissance/09_Swiss.htm)  

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare2.netai.net/index.htm)
Title: Re: 16th century Swiss
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 25 February 2017, 11:46:45 AM
Perfectly timed D, thank you
Title: Re: 16th century Swiss
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 25 February 2017, 11:54:52 AM
Awesome sites, really helpful. IOU D
Title: Re: 16th century Swiss
Post by: Leman on 25 February 2017, 01:53:11 PM
The 1522 engraving gives a good idea of how much simpler Swiss dress was compared to the Landsknechts.