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Infantry escort. ... he garrison at Phil Kearny had constructed a protective corral of wagon beds to protect livestock and serve as a defensive position in case
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is possibly derived. When the enemy approached near enough, crossbowmen and hand-gunners emerge from the wagons and inflict more casualties at close range. There would even be stones stored in a pouch inside the wagons for throwing should the soldiers run out of ammunition. After this huge barrage,
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faction. On a hill within a wagon fort, they were drawn into charging out prematurely, when their enemy pretended to retreat. The
Utraquists would be reconciled with the Catholic Church afterwards. Thus ended the wagon fort's impact on Czech history. The first victory against the wagon fort at the
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Grain fields cover the land where oxen once pulled the huge
Conestoga wagons. Once the wagons were well away from the water, the waiting Indians swooped down. Quickly the wagons were swung about to form a corral. Inside were three hundred men, women, and children, and all their
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in 1444, it is said that 600 Bohemian handgunners (men armed with early shoulder arms) defended a wagon fortification. The
Germans would also use wagons for fortification. They used much cheaper materials than the Hussites, and different wagons for infantry and artillery. The
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The corral was composed of fourteen of these wagon boxes, placed end-to-end so as to form an oval-shaped enclosure. ... The corral was positioned so that both "pineries" were under visual control and was "well selected for defense
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usually formed a square of the armed wagons, joined them with iron chains, and defended the resulting fortification against charges of the enemy. Such a camp was easy to establish and practically invulnerable to enemy
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laager. The wagon forts would form into squares, supporting each other. Were an assault made between two forts, marksmen from both would easily exploit the advantage and kill many of the enemy.
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formations. Tabors supported the armies in Europe between the 13th and 20th centuries. Tabors usually followed the armies and carried all the necessary supplies and rear units, such as
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battle using the wagon fort: defensive and counterattack. The defensive part would be a pounding of the enemy with artillery. The
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would spring out and attack the weary enemy. Alongside this infantry, cavalry would leave the square and strike. The enemy would be eliminated, or very nearly so.
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63:circling the wagons
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