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- Caesar was probably describing an early form of the shieldwall so popular in later times.
- Spears usually were used in tightly ordered formations, such as the shieldwall or the schiltron.
- They formed a tightly packed shield wall, with spears projecting from the front rank over the shieldwall.
- This delay had allowed the bulk of the Norse army to form a shieldwall to face the English attack.
- There was no cavalry in western Europe capable of consistently breaking a well-ordered shieldwall, aside perhaps from the Byzantine Cataphracts.
- He also won the Somerset Maugham Award, and his latest novel, Shieldwall, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year.
- One of the tracks from the album,'Madness of the Feral Moon', also appeared on Iron Age Records'Volume 1 compilation alongside bands such as Shieldwall, Oakenshield and No Remorse.
- Retreating from the Battle of Sunomata-gawa, Minamoto no Yukiie attempted to make a stand by destroying the bridge over the Yahagi River ( 鈝 \ O?] " Yahagi-gawa " ) and putting up a defensive shieldwall.
- It was, in fact, rather effective at repelling the Norman Cavalry and it was only the death of Sherston in 1016, only with a slight difference-instead of simply holding position, the army advanced on the enemy while maintaining their solid formation ( A refinement of this tactic was used in the crusades : as the army neared the enemy line, gaps would open in the'shieldwall'through which the cavalry would charge ).