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Pike (weapon)
Long spear used by infantry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A pike is a long thrusting spear formerly used in European warfare from the Late Middle Ages[1] and most of the early modern period, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in pike square formation, until it was largely replaced by bayonet-equipped muskets. The pike was particularly well known as the primary weapon of Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon, the sarissa, had been used in antiquity by Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx infantry.
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