The close burgonet has a high comb, a peak, a barred, spiked visor and three gorget plates. |
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A burgonet is an open-type helmet generally found with ear flaps, a brim, a comb or a peaked finial, and sometimes a faceguard. |
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This can be easily increased or decreased by raising or lowering the burgonet brim and the upper buffe plate. |
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Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions. |
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The archetype of the burgonet is perhaps the casque worn by the Swiss infantry at the epoch of Marignan. |
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At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon. |
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What would you have done with a burgonet in the 16th century? |
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