lansquenets

• “Rouen, and tied up to his girdle the bark all full of salt, as easily as the lansquenets carry their little panniers, and so set onward on his way with his fellow-soldiers.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Even at the height of the Renaissance, twelve thousand lansquenets in the pay of the imperial armies sacked and devastated Rome and put eight thousand of its inhabitants to the sword.”

  Gabriel García Márquez - Nobel Lecture

• “Another would volunteer to lead a muster of lansquenets in the north.”

  The Shadow of the Torturer

• “On this expedition, M. the Constable was general of the army; M. de Chastillon, afterward the Admiral, was chief colonel of the infantry, with four regiments of lansquenets under”

  The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

• “On the first show of resistance, Francis would collect his own troops, consisting of thirty thousand or forty thousand foot, and seven hundred or eight hundred horse, expected levies of ten thousand Swiss, and six thousand or seven thousand German lansquenets.”

  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)

• “They conceived the idea of another life, more free, more ornate -- in a word, more 'human' -- than that which they had been leading for five or six centuries; a confused feeling of the power of beauty twined itself into the souls of gendarmes and lansquenets, and it was then that the breath of the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “On this expedition, M. the Constable was general of the army; M. de Chastillon, afterward the Admiral, was chief colonel of the infantry, with four regiments of lansquenets under Captains Recrod and Ringrave, two under each; and every regiment was of ten ensigns, and every ensign of five hundred men.”

  The Journey to Germany. 1552

• “Their campaign of reason could make no headway against the "League of Six" -- the six great iron and steel companies of the West, who, with their paid lansquenets of the press and hired accelerators of public opinion, clamour for annexation so that they may rivet the chains of their industrial monopoly on the whole continent of Europe.”

  Face to Face with Kaiserism

• “The German Lutheran princes permitted a large auxiliary force of lansquenets and heavy-armed cavalry to be raised among their subjects in behalf of the French”

  Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

• “There was more than enough for him to do that day over yonder in the room occupied by the lansquenets and the city soldiers, where he usually directed affairs in person.”

  The Complete Short Works

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