http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Musketeer 2026-05-03T15:51:45Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347784&oldid=prev 2023-06-22T13:11:24Z

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imported>Administrator http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347762&oldid=prev 2023-06-19T02:46:03Z

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imported>Administrator http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347761&oldid=prev 2023-05-18T04:00:28Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:00, 18 May 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.  The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">musketeers </del>continued to exist up until the French Revolution; the Marquis de Lafayette who fought in the American Revolutionary War had served in the Musketeers as a teenager.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.  The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Musketeers </ins>continued to exist up until the French Revolution; the Marquis de Lafayette who fought in the American Revolutionary War had served in the Musketeers as a teenager.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Games ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Games ==</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347783&oldid=prev 2023-05-17T13:25:03Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:25, 17 May 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> The musketeers continued to exist up until the French Revolution; the Marquis de Lafayette who fought in the American Revolutionary War had served in the Musketeers as a teenager.  </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Games ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Games ==</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347782&oldid=prev 2023-05-17T13:14:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:14, 17 May 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Musketeers of the Guard were founded in 1622 by Louis XIII, and served with glory through the reign of Louis XIV (&#039;&#039;the Sun King&#039;&#039;).  While popularly depicted as freewheeling, drinking, swashbucklers in tabards, they were actually, as their name suggests, primarily a musket formation and typically fought as dragoons (horse infantry that dismount to fight, unlike cavalry).  Their role was to serve as the king&#039;s guard outside the palace; the palace guards being a separate corps supported by Swiss mercenaries.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Musketeers of the Guard were founded in 1622 by Louis XIII, and served with glory through the reign of Louis XIV (&#039;&#039;the Sun King&#039;&#039;).  While popularly depicted as freewheeling, drinking, swashbucklers in tabards, they were actually, as their name suggests, primarily a musket formation and typically fought as dragoons (horse infantry that dismount to fight, unlike cavalry).  Their role was to serve as the king&#039;s guard outside the palace; the palace guards being a separate corps supported by Swiss mercenaries.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal's Guard<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>the two units had a fierce rivalry<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>although nowhere near as fratricidal as pop fiction suggests. When the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies were reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal's Guard<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  As the best trained and equipped infantry units in France, who spent most of their time sitting around in Paris with nothing to do, </ins>the two units had a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">legendarily </ins>fierce rivalry<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </ins>although nowhere near as fratricidal as pop fiction suggests. When the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies were reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.   </div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347781&oldid=prev 2023-01-19T09:03:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:03, 19 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l16">Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;[[The Duke]]&#039;&#039;&#039; has a Three Musketeers expansion which pits the namesake characters of the Dumas book against the Cardinal and his stooges.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* &#039;&#039;&#039;[[The Duke]]&#039;&#039;&#039; has a Three Musketeers expansion which pits the namesake characters of the Dumas book against the Cardinal and his stooges.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:France]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Gilten http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347780&oldid=prev 2022-10-07T14:29:27Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:29, 7 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal&#039;s Guard; the two units had a fierce rivalry, although nowhere near as fratricidal as pop fiction suggests. When the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies were reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal&#039;s Guard; the two units had a fierce rivalry, although nowhere near as fratricidal as pop fiction suggests. When the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies were reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Their equipment of the 17th century was slightly unusual.  Gun tactics at the time provided the musketman a crook (a stick with a u-shaped top) to stabilize their gun on, a holdover from the harquebus which was simply too heavy to hold two handed for any significant period of time.  The Musketeers had such a crook, but the top of their crook incorporated a bayonet, allowing it to be used as a spear after firing a volley.  Rapiers, daggers, and small swords were ubiquitous as backup weapons, consistent with European sword fighting techniques of the era.  </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347779&oldid=prev 2022-10-05T11:21:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:21, 5 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Musketeers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|If you&#039;re going to be a proper Musketeer, you&#039;ll have to learn the manly art of wenching.]]{{topquote|All for one and one for all!|Alexander Dumas}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Musketeers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|If you&#039;re going to be a proper Musketeer, you&#039;ll have to learn the manly art of wenching.]]{{topquote|All for one and one for all!|Alexander Dumas}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{topquote|Quo ruit et lethum (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>Then they charged and died.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>)|Actual Motto}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{topquote|Quo ruit et lethum (Then they charged and died.)|Actual Motto}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Musketeers&#039;&#039;&#039; are one of the few things which is both undisputedly French and undisputedly awesome.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Musketeers&#039;&#039;&#039; are one of the few things which is both undisputedly French and undisputedly awesome.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347778&oldid=prev 2022-10-05T11:21:14Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:21, 5 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Musketeers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|If you&#039;re going to be a proper Musketeer, you&#039;ll have to learn the manly art of wenching.]]{{topquote|All for one and one for all!|Alexander Dumas}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Musketeers.jpg|thumb|right|350px|If you&#039;re going to be a proper Musketeer, you&#039;ll have to learn the manly art of wenching.]]{{topquote|All for one and one for all!|Alexander Dumas}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{topquote|Quo ruit et lethum ("Then they charged and died.")|Actual Motto}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Musketeers&#039;&#039;&#039; are one of the few things which is both undisputedly French and undisputedly awesome.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Musketeers&#039;&#039;&#039; are one of the few things which is both undisputedly French and undisputedly awesome.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Musketeer&diff=347777&oldid=prev 2022-10-05T11:08:07Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:08, 5 October 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Musketeers of the Guard were founded in 1622 by Louis XIII, and served with glory through the reign of Louis XIV (&#039;&#039;the Sun King&#039;&#039;).  While popularly depicted as freewheeling, drinking, swashbucklers in tabards, they were actually, as their name suggests, primarily a musket formation and typically fought as dragoons (horse infantry that dismount to fight, unlike cavalry).  Their role was to serve as the king&#039;s guard outside the palace; the palace guards being a separate corps supported by Swiss mercenaries.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Musketeers of the Guard were founded in 1622 by Louis XIII, and served with glory through the reign of Louis XIV (&#039;&#039;the Sun King&#039;&#039;).  While popularly depicted as freewheeling, drinking, swashbucklers in tabards, they were actually, as their name suggests, primarily a musket formation and typically fought as dragoons (horse infantry that dismount to fight, unlike cavalry).  Their role was to serve as the king&#039;s guard outside the palace; the palace guards being a separate corps supported by Swiss mercenaries.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal's Guard<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The </del>two units had a fierce rivalry, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so when </del>the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would be </del>reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time France was being torn apart by religious disputes.  The crown and country were sworn to Catholicism but were beset large numbers of protestant Huguenots, necessitating an elite force to provide the king continuous protection.  Shortly after the formation of the Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu (who was basically France’s most powerful politician at the time and had plenty of enemies within and outside France) petitioned the king to create a second company of musketeers for his protection as well.  This request was granted, creating the Cardinal's Guard<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; the </ins>two units had a fierce rivalry, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">although nowhere near as fratricidal as pop fiction suggests. When </ins>the Cardinal’s guard came under the authority of King Louis XIV, the two companies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </ins>reorganized as the Grey and Black companies, based on the colors of the horses they rode.  The stylized cross of their uniforms was significant, a bold declaration of their loyalty to Catholicism.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Serving in the Musketeers was extremely prestigious and virtually all its members were sons of aristocracy.  The Tellier reforms mandated that nobility seeking to become officers needed time in ranks to learn military life, and the Guard was a highly desirable posting to serve out that term before seeking a commission.</div></td></tr> </table>

1d4chan>Piroko