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Pike and shot formation9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The coronelía had been the answer to the double threat which Spain had encountered in the Italian wars: the Swiss Gewalthaufen (pike blocs) and the French heavy cavalry. ![]() The tercio developed around 1530 out of an earlier batlefield formation, the coronelía, a 6000-strong unit of pikemen and harquebusiers with some halberdiers and sword-and-buckler men thrown in. The core of the Spanish army was the infantry, and the core of the infantry were the shock troops called tercios. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, engraving 1513
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