Tercio
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tercio-187-10796177
title:
Tercio
text:
A tercio, Spanish for "[a] third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and the essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting with the navy. The Spanish tercios were one of the finest professional infantries in the world due to the effectiveness of their battlefield formations and were a cruci
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Land warfare branch of the Spanish Tercios of the Spanish Empire
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercio
date created:
2004-09-20T11:59:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T13:02:34Z
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13
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