Tercio
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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. Wikipedia
Founded: 1534
Comandante: John of Austria; Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
Equipment: Arquebuses, muskets, and pikes
Field Master of Navarre: Don Gaspar Pineiro de Elio Esparza y Artieda y Velaz de Medrano, Lord of Elio, etc.
Part of: Spanish Armed Forces
Role: Close combat; Hand-to-hand combat; Hedgehog defence; Pike square; Raiding; Volley fire
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