{"id":14066,"date":"2014-12-05T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2014-12-05T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:55:14","slug":"as-the-proud-owner-of-a-halberd-i-concur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/as-the-proud-owner-of-a-halberd-i-concur\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Proud Owner Of A Halberd, I Concur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always said that the halberd is the Swiss army knife of weapons.  You&#8217;ve got an unarmored peasant side, an armored enemy side, and a mounted enemy point.<\/p>\n<p>MyArmoury.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myarmoury.com\/feature_spot_poleaxe.html\" target=\"_blank\">agrees<\/a> in an article that explores the overlooked history of the polearm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of these poleaxes, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, had a spike on the top which allowed them to be potent thrusting weapons as well as being able to attack in both directions (axe or hammer on one side and a hammer or spike on the other). The presence of a spike(s) (or a fluke as it is sometimes called), hammer head and\/or an axe head on the same weapons creates problems in classifying these weapons. A single poleaxe may combine the crushing power of the warhammer, the cleaving power of the long-handled (Danish) axe, and the thrusting capability of the spear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I concur, mainly because it gives me an excuse to re-run this image of a boy and his best friend:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/halberd.jpg\" width=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"1\">Does anyone else remember the IMAO Peace Gallery?  Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imao.us\/peace_index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">IMAO doesn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Michael Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwilliams.info\/archive\/2014\/11\/poleaxes-are-better-than-swords.php\" target=\"_blank\">quips<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t bring a longsword to a poleaxe fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I shan&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always said that the halberd is the Swiss army knife of weapons. You&#8217;ve got an unarmored peasant side, an armored enemy side, and a mounted enemy point. MyArmoury.com agrees in an article that explores the overlooked history of the polearm: Most of these poleaxes, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, had a spike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}