Message:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6agtVxWi8
Now understand that the video looks like a hundred soldiers vs a hundred. An actual Tercio formation had 3000. Plus, there were twenty full units of them fielded. The Spanish lost the day with 7500 killed, 7000 captured and 7000 routed/missing. The French suffered four thousand casualties much of it from their 32 companies of horsemen (nobles). Some of the battle was over which side held the 32 field guns, French and Spanish, and how often either side lost control and had the guns turned about to fire on their own.
The Spanish trying to hold a siege were unable to retreat in good order. When all the cannon were squarely wrestled under the control of the French.
Thirty Years War, religious hatred, awful carnage.
Yours,
IronRed
10-Dec-2021