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éstas consistían sobre todo en ciertos cambios en los trenes de artillería, que los hacían más maniobrables, y en la sustitución de las armas ordinarias por lanzas parecidas a las de los suizos en la forma, pero dos pies más largas.
so they very soon assembled a small army, and as they had been able during their stay among the French to study those matters of military organisation in which France excelled, they now applied the result of their learning to their own troops: the improvements were mainly certain changes in the artillery which made their manoeuvres easier, and the substitution for their ordinary weapons of pikes similar in form to the Swiss pikes, but two feet longer.
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