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The Roman legions, contrary to Gibbon, overran the world with
the "pilum," rather than the gladius, but we are not sure how they
held it. The Swiss mercenaries of the enlightenment frustrated
Medieval calvary with the pike, and we do have some idea of how it
was used - as a horse stopper, if not in a man-against-man
mode.