The core of the Russian cavalry in the 13th and 14th centuries consisted of the princedom brigades, which were divided into "senior" brigades made up of boyars and the prince's confidents, and the "junior" ones filled with simple soldiers. The set...
In the French army, the infantry served an auxiliary function - its main role consisted of providing support for the vast knight cavalry. The majority of the infantry consisted of mercenaries, with Genoese crossbowmen playing a main role. The s...
In the Middle Ages, mass discontent of the peasants unfurled into a full-scale armed revolt, which started as the Russian Peasant War and later engulfed almost all of Europe. During stages of the war, the peasant army had up to 100,000 soldiers.
