Bombardment of Cork


This Dutch engraving of the bombardment of Cork in 1690 shows the massed army besieging the fortifications. The tall pikes of some of the infantry can be seen but the Fusiliers at that time did not have companies of pikemen, they were all armed with fusils.


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