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HUSSITE ARTILLERYMAN

An extract from Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2
by Ian Heath


127.      HUSSITE ARTILLERYMAN

This figure wears a rolled hood on his head, and a cross-over style gambeson, plus the large wallet-cum satchel mentioned under figure 124. In his leather-gloved hands he carries a stone cannon-ball. Throughout Europe such stone shot was made by skilled artisans who were paid very high wages, receiving as much as a man-at-arms by the end of the 14th century.



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