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@Clint_Davey1 Avatar @Clint_Davey1 Clint Warren-Davey

Clint Warren-Davey posts on X about history, countries, spain, the north the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"You needed a lot of pikemen in a 16th or 17th century field army. Partially because armies during this time had a very high proportion of cavalry - often 30-40%. And cavalry were the primary shock unit on the battlefield. Muskets and arquebuses were not yet effective enough to stop cavalry entirely on their own. Especially with no bayonets. So you would have to pay lots of guys to "trail a pike". Even if they didn't end up fighting enemy cavalry you would send them up against the enemy pikemen in the horrific "push of pike""
X Link 2025-12-15T10:00Z 9938 followers, 9292 engagements

"It is greatly to Martin Luther's credit that he did not actively seek out an alliance with the Ottomans. Protestant Germans and Islamic Turks had a common enemy: the Catholic Habsburgs and the Papacy. I'm sure he considered it. Wouldn't be so hard to send an envoy to Constantinople and encourage the Turks to step up their attacks or even ask for funding weapons etc. Suleiman the Magnificent would have seen the Protestants as a handy ally to distract his enemies. But it didn't really materialise during Luther's lifetime despite the incentives. In fact Luther encouraged German rulers to resist"
X Link 2025-12-15T23:26Z 9988 followers, 24.2K engagements

"I once read a historian possibly a Marxist say that medieval society never progressed because any surplus production was consumed with numerous FEASTS. I think feasting is a good idea though"
X Link 2025-12-17T10:58Z 9997 followers, 1133 engagements

"I'm starting a new campaign of Purple Haze. I rated this as the best wargame of 2024. It's an epic narrative-driven wargame/RPG where you lead a squad of Marines in Vietnam. In my first campaign I played very cautiously. Tried not to get my men killed but still achieve the objectives for each mission. This time I'm being much more adventurous as I want to explore all the possible narrative threads that can happen in the game. I'm just on Mission X. My squad has gone down in a helicopter crash and I need to get back to base. A second helicopter went down nearby as well which I want to"
X Link 2025-12-18T00:37Z 10.1K followers, 3444 engagements

"This is a pretty cool weapon. A six-flanged mace used by Ottoman Janissaries. Good against armor. From what these Ottoman experts are telling me Janissaries were an elite held back in reserve in most battles and only committed at the decisive moment"
X Link 2025-12-18T05:31Z 9954 followers, 1824 engagements

"@moseley_bo They got some trading rights. They never planned on full conquest though"
X Link 2025-12-19T21:00Z 9951 followers, 1790 engagements

"Apparently Ottoman Janissaries would fire a volley of musket fire and then charge in with scimitars maces and other melee weapons. But they didn't really adopt pike and shot tactics like Western Europeans did. No deep pike blocks with sleeves of shot on the wings withdrawing to the pikes for protection when needed. Scholars of Ottoman military history - is this basically right Or am I missing something about Janissary tactics I'm talking 16th century here specifically"
X Link 2025-12-17T11:05Z 10.1K followers, 36.3K engagements

"Polish Hadjuks were Hungarian-inspired light infantry used in the 16th-17th century. Unlike Western European pike and shot formations these infantrymen were armed with arquebus axe and sabre. Infantry would be a minority of the army though - cavalry were usually more numerous"
X Link 2025-12-19T19:02Z 10.1K followers, 2936 engagements

"The Knights of St. John lost Rhodes to the Turks. But XX years later they held Malta"
X Link 2025-12-20T22:23Z 10.1K followers, 2668 engagements

"Why the pike and shot era is so cool: -Massive world-transforming events all happening at once. The Renaissance. The Reformation. The Age of Discovery. The Scientific Revolution. Plus a "Military Revolution" that changes warfare completely. -Huge variety of weapons and unit types all used on the same battlefields. Arquebuses muskets crossbows pikes halberds swords two-handed swords lances pistols artillery and more. Armour and guns at the same time. Professional gun-armed infantry and feudal knights at the same time. That's even without including Eastern Europe where you get Stradiots Winged"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:33Z 10.1K followers, 14.1K engagements

"@AAnonimatvm They were threatened by Islam. Barbary Corsairs raiding the entire coastline and Ottoman armies at the gates of Vienna"
X Link 2025-12-20T20:34Z 10.1K followers, 12.2K engagements

"The Nazis had a strange fascination with a lot of things from history. One of them is 16th century mercenary captains from the German Peasants War. They named the 8th SS Cavalry Division after Florian Geyer a radical anti-royal and anti-clerical captain who led the "Black Company". His sword was engraved with the slogan "no cross no crown." They named the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division after Gotz von Berlichingen a mercenary ruffian with a prosthetic iron hand and propensity for vulgar insults like "he can lick my arse." The Nazi interest in these guys is weird because they're not exactly"
X Link 2025-11-20T02:39Z 10.2K followers, 449K engagements

"The technological edge of the conquistadors is sometimes overstated. Cortes did have some guns - about XX in total. But the vast majority of his force were sword and buckler armed light infantry. They also tended to ditch their metal armour and use the same cotton armour as the Aztecs as it was lighter and cooler. Yes a sword made of Toledo steel is still a very effective weapon. And it's better than the Aztec clubs studded with obsidian. But the technological edge alone does not explain Spanish victory. Skilful diplomacy (like allying with the Tlaxcala) practical logistical knowledge (making"
X Link 2025-12-15T09:48Z 10.2K followers, 86.1K engagements

"Here's the problem with history. You can claim any and every source is biased in some way. This accusation of bias can be used against every single source. Primary secondary whatever. This is well known. But many historians are subtly claiming secret access to The Truth which is inaccessible through normal sources. How are they finding this Truth How do you know ancient chroncilers are lying Where is the hard evidence of wjat happened outside of the primary sources that we actually have So much of "critical" historiography has no basis in evidence and is just assumptions hunches and"
X Link 2025-12-17T22:24Z 10.2K followers, 19.3K engagements

"I've posted before about how Spain in the 16th century drew up plans to invade China. Pretty crazy. Probably wouldn't have worked. But one of the Spanish conquistadors who was actually preparing to do it was Pedro de Alvarado. The right-hand man of Hernan Cortes. An absolute terror to the Aztecs. The guy who reached the centre of the city first in the Siege of Tenochtitlan routinely led the rearguard of the Spanish force and was involved in the heaviest fighting in the Conquest of Mexico. He recruited a force in Mexico and was planning on crossing the Pacific until he had to cancel the"
X Link 2025-12-19T19:13Z 10.2K followers, 23.9K engagements

"The Ottoman Empire was the terror of Europe for centuries. The English French Dutch and Scandinavians never really felt this threat at a visceral level. The Spanish Italians Austrians Poles and Hungarians certainly did. Why were the Ottoman Turks so feared in military terms Here are some reasons: -Superior numbers. The Ottomans could regularly assemble 100000 or 200000 men in the field. -Usually superiority in cavalry. Nearly always in quantity but sometimes quality too. This included masses of horse archers and light cavalry plus an elite core of heavy armoured cavalry like the Sipahis of"
X Link 2025-12-20T11:35Z 10.2K followers, 208.7K engagements

"One thing often missing from this story is that the Pharisees had been re-minting the Tyrian half-shekel for use in the Court of the Gentiles as Gentiles had to pay a tax to pray in the Temple - with Roman permission. The Tyrian half-shekel shows Baal and Hercules. This is also why the Pharisees are so offended when Jesus asks "whose face is on this coin""
X Link 2025-12-20T11:45Z 10.2K followers, 78.6K engagements

"A curious fact about the Reformation is that it kicked off in countries that were not directly threatened by Islam. The Spanish Italians Austrians and Poles saw Protestants as essentially traitors abandoning them to a powerful enemy. The countries that were fighting to defend their Catholic civilisation from the Ottomans and Moors were more secure in their allegiance to the ancient faith"
X Link 2025-12-20T12:22Z 10.2K followers, 760.5K engagements

"It's something I read from H.W. Crocker in his book Triumph. Basically the countries closest to Islam had a kind of fortress mentality and experimenting with the ancient faith felt like a kind of betrayal. They were fighting hard to defend Catholicism from the south so they saw Protestants in the north as stabbing them in the back. In turn the northern countries had the "breathing room" to critique the faith because they weren't involved in an existential fight to defend it"
X Link 2025-12-20T23:46Z 10.2K followers, 17.2K engagements

"I learned this idea from from H.W. Crocker in his book Triumph. Basically the countries closest to Islam had a kind of fortress mentality and experimenting with the ancient faith felt like a kind of betrayal. They were fighting hard to defend Catholicism from the south so they saw Protestants in the north as stabbing them in the back. In turn the northern countries had the "breathing room" to critique the faith because they weren't involved in an existential fight to defend it"
X Link 2025-12-20T23:47Z 10.2K followers, 18.1K engagements

"If you live in the American Deep South you should probably know a little about Hernando de Soto. He was one of many fascinating conquistadors from Spain's golden age. De Soto had accompanied Pizarro in the conquest of Peru but later led an expedition from Cuba to explore and conquer the enormous region of America which the Spanish called "La Florida". The expedition lasted X years and traversed 6500km over what is now Florida Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas. De Soto began with over XXX men but by the end only 300-350 remained due to numerous"
X Link 2025-12-21T11:21Z 10.2K followers, 14.9K engagements

"One of the funniest examples of journalism in history is the newspapers in Paris desribing Napoleon's return in 1815. When he first landed on the coast they were saying things like "the Ogre has landed" and then they get more positive as he gets closer. So eventually they're just like "Hail the Emperor" when he's about to enter the city"
X Link 2025-12-21T19:25Z 10.2K followers, 146.3K engagements

"A list of XX very interesting Spanish conquistadors from the 16th century: X. Hernn Corts: The most famous of them all. A real gambler who staked everything on his mission witu absolute confidence. Conquered the enormous Aztec Empire (with help from native allies like the Tlaxcala) and established the colony of New Spain. X. Francisco Pizarro: Conquered the Inca Empire and founded the Viceroyalty of Peru. He led a ridiculously small force of XXX men against an empire of millions - but like Corts he was able to exploit divisions among the natives. X. Hernando de Soto: Explored much of the"
X Link 2025-12-21T19:51Z 10.2K followers, 44.3K engagements

"@Benjaacunaxd Yeah he's cool too. I've just been researching exploration in Florida lately so these guys came to mind"
X Link 2025-12-21T21:02Z 10.2K followers, 1716 engagements

"I love how Spanish patriots have community-noted this post to mention the tercios:"
X Link 2025-12-21T21:05Z 10.2K followers, 38K engagements

"When I post about the Ottoman Empire I sometimes see people from other Balkan countries making fun of Albania. Mainly for converting to Islam and being more aligned with their Turkish conquerors. In contrast to Alabania Serbia and Greece (to take two examples) retained a majority Christian faith. Now there might be three reasonable rejoinders to this: X. Albania DID resist Ottoman colonisation. They had a huge uprising in the 15th century which devastated the country. X. The conversion of the majority of Alabanians took centuries and was a combination of positive and negative incentives. If"
X Link 2025-12-21T21:20Z 10.2K followers, 28K engagements

"Rome would wipe the floor with the Indians and Chinese"
X Link 2025-12-22T20:16Z 10.2K followers, 89.9K engagements

"Also after the time of Jesus the pagan Roman cults stopped working. Sacrifices no longer provided the expected blessings and oracles no longer provided accurate predictions. There's also a story maybe apocryphal of someone hearing "Pan is dead" drifting over the water"
X Link 2025-12-22T20:36Z 10.2K followers, 26.2K engagements

"The Spanish Empire tended to avoid the word "colony". The territories that were claimed by the conquistadors were mostly organised as viceroyalties e.g. the Viceroyalty of New Spain or the Viceroyalty of Peru. Each one was ruled by viceroy who served on behalf of the king directly. So these territories were in a strictly legal sense part of the Kingdom of Spain and not separate colonies. This meant that the native inhabitants were subjects of the king with the same rights as people in Spain itself. Did this mean they were treated well Often not. The encomienda system could be quite cruel. But"
X Link 2025-12-22T22:54Z 10.2K followers, 60.8K engagements