Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Tassets
Overlapping plates covering the joint of the haunch part in a full- armor.
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- Arquebus
- Also called Harquebus, Hackbut or Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Breastplate
- Plate armour protecttion for the front of the torso, to the waist. See also plackart.
- Fauld
- Armour (usually composed of horizontal lames) attached to the bottom edge of a breastplate to protect the abdomen.
- Haubergen
- Shorter version of the hauberk, a shirt made of mail, usually laced down the sides.
