The Art of War in the Middle Ages A.D. 378-1515

part in withstanding the Ottoman. The landsknechts and hackbut-men of

Charles V and Ferdinand of Austria proved much more formidable foes to the Sultans than the gallant but undisciplined light cavalry[124] of Hungary. This was to a great extent due to the perfection of pike-tactics in the West. The Turks, whose infantry could never be induced to adopt that weapon[125], relied entir...