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landsknecht
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landsknecht [ˈlæntskəˌnɛkt]
n
(Historical Terms) (Military) a mercenary foot soldier in late 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Europe, esp a German pikeman
[German, literally: landknight]


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The very nature of warfare being endemic and systemic would render the sort of "big lie" propaganda that works in the twentieth century, because of out distance from events, worthless in an age which could see "the chamois hunter's" Landsknechts fleeing down the road as fast as their pluderhosen-clad legs could carry them.
[145] On the morning of 6 May, the footsoldiers of Charles V, about 20,000 Landsknechts and Spaniards, stormed into the city, where they slaughtered, pillaged, tortured, and raped for weeks.
Moreover, they were shocked by the brutality and behavior of the German Landsknechts during the sack of Rome.
 
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