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by: Gootch Gootch - Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:10 UTC

On Wednesday, January 1, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, cassius wrote:
> Can anybody help me?
> I'm not english-speaking, and I have found in a book the word
> "SCHILTRON". I don't find the meaning of this word in any dictionary.
> It refers to a some middle-age army item.
> The book is "The Lion in the North" of John Prebble.
> The sentence says: " The King placed his four schiltrons along the
> road through the New Park".
> I will be thankful if somebody can explain me, what is the meaning of
> schiltron.
> Advanced Thanks

The Schiltron is a multi-level spear or pike barrier, but unlike the phalanx, it is arrayed as a square. Difficult to break up with cavalry, but archers could loft arrows into the formation, striking the backs of the rear spearmen. My name is supposed to be derived from it.

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by: soup - Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:15 UTC

On 30/12/2023 00:10, Gootch Gootch wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 1, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, cassius wrote:
>> Can anybody help me?
>> I'm not english-speaking, and I have found in a book the word
>> "SCHILTRON". I don't find the meaning of this word in any dictionary.
>> It refers to a some middle-age army item.
>> The book is "The Lion in the North" of John Prebble.
>> The sentence says: " The King placed his four schiltrons along the
>> road through the New Park".
>> I will be thankful if somebody can explain me, what is the meaning of
>> schiltron.
>> Advanced Thanks
>
> The Schiltron is a multi-level spear or pike barrier, but unlike the phalanx, it is arrayed as a square. Difficult to break up with cavalry, but archers could loft arrows into the formation, striking the backs of the rear spearmen. My name is supposed to be derived from it.

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away from them. :O)

Wallace is said to have '(Re[1])invented' the Schiltron, It was regarded
as a 'maneuver' or rather way of setting men that required no great
skill yet was very effective.

[1] Similar units/items/tactics were used in ancient times (by Greeks,
Macedonians, Persians etc). But this was unlikely to be known to Wallace.

Subject	Author
Re: SCHILTRON	Gootch Gootch
Re: SCHILTRON	soup