Fatuska János – Fülöp Éva Mária – ifj. Gyuszi László (szerk.): Annales Tataienses I. Tata a tizenöt éves háborúban. Mecénás Közalapítvány. Tata, 1998.

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Gyula Kedves: Armoury in the 15 Years War The history of armaments enumerates three great changes in the history of small arms which had been revolutionarised the art of war. The third and most important change from these had been the spread of fire arms, which transformed entirely the structure and the function of the European armies. Numerous signs of it just can be seen in the history of the 15 Years War. At the end of the XVI. th, century every considerable army had used fire arms in mass, and at the end of the XVII. th, century (thanks to the invention of the bayonet) it had become the sole weapon of the infantry. The XV th, century made soldiers with heavy weapons the ruler of the battle fields. The spread of fire arms in mass had been helped by the construction of the musket, an easier and much simpler rifle than any before, at the end of the XVI. th, century. Rifle had been used by infantry troops even in the XV th, century, it was spread in Western Europe first and later in the Eastern areas. As opposed to the colourful XV th, century armies, the infantry had become more homogen. The advanced army's infantry had been made up from rifle troops and pikemen, and later at the end of the XVII. th, century the regular infantry armed with rifles with bayonet had born. The light armed and great numbered Hungarian "haj du" soldiers had played an important role in the 15 Years War, which is sometimes called "Long War". The mistaken view can be found in the literature even nowadays that the Hungarian infantry had not been used fire arms. In fact even in the middle of the century it was general to order Hungarian rifle men for the defence of the castles. The most demanded mercenary troops had been the so called "black cavalry" under the 15 Years War. (They received their names because of their armour.) They were exclusively made up from Germans, and because this reason the in the literature they some times called German cavalry. Their main weapon was the pistol, they rarely used rifle and only some of their troops was equipped with it. From the foreign cavalry the dragoons had been the youngest, which in fact born at that time. It was the connecting chain between the cavalry of the XVI. th, and between the XVII. th, centuries. 158