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  1.  @indrajitgupta3280  The Flemish did beat the cavalry with the gotendags (Golden Spur) the Lombards with spears and shields (Legnano), the Almogavars routinely with javelins and falchions. Every weapon was effective if well used, but none of those was a game-changer. At Crecy and Agincourt it was the preparation of the battle that counted more than the weapon used.
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  2. But they were reinassance formations. It took centuries to train large groups of disciplined infantrymen to fight that way. Medieval battles usually lacked the numbers for those formations to work. We recall medieval battles like that of Legnano, or the Golden Spurs, because what was not foreseeable happened, the infantry held out, and the cavalry charge was defeated. But that was not the norm. That was the exception.
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  3.  @garrenbrooks4778  While still in the battle of Arbedo, 1422, they had been defeated because they used halberds, and the lances of the Milanese knights outreached them. Someone using a certain weapon doesn't mean he does to some avail. Until the defeats of Charles the Bold, the Swiss were not considered anything special.
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  4.  @garrenbrooks4778  That means they were renaissance formations. Middle age begun a millennia before.
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  5.  @rotwang2000  Several times pike or pike and shot formations had been defeated by cavalry, but I don't know of instances where they had been defeated by cavalry charging directly into the formed square. Cavalry had to use other tactics, based on its superior maneuverability (attack without giving the pikemen time to form the square, bypass the pike formation and attack the camp, disrupt the square by other means before the charge...). However is not correct to state, as often did, that the pike killed the heavy cavalry. In reality pure pike formations and heavy cavalry, in western Europe ended at the same time, around 1520 in the Italian Wars, both killed by artillery and arquebusies (while the light cavalry survived, since it was more apt to use those flanking tactics). In Eastern Europe heavy cavalry survived for long (Winged Hussars) even in the age of pike-and-shot.
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