Sentences with 'pikes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pikes and other words derived from it.
• « Instead, squads of pikemen (i.e. soldiers fighting with long spears called pikes) supplemented by soldiers wielding primitive muskets neutralised the effectiveness of the knights. »
• « Cannons were introduced in the second half of the 100 Years' War, but most soldiers were still armed with bows and pikes - the gunpowder 'revolution' took the best part of a century. »
• « A small white force led by Andry finally captured Deslondes, whose body was mutilated and burned after his execution. Other rebel slaves were beheaded and their heads placed on pikes along the Mississippi River. »