Polearms of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries that officers and infantry carried alongside firearms, including the partisan, the spontoon and the branched Chinese lang xian. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a polearm or spear. It excludes swords and muskets, which sit in their own groups. Officers carried the spontoon and the partisan as marks of rank and as weapons, and the Chinese lang xian shows how branched bamboo spears armed Ming dynasty infantry against swordsmen and cavalry.
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Wikipedia: Partisan (weapon)
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A partisan or partizan (from Middle French: partisane, via folk etymology, from pertuisane, "partisan"), a type of polearm, was used in Europe during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Wikipedia: Spontoon
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A spontoon, sometimes known by the variant spelling espontoon or as a half-pike, is a type of European polearm that came into being alongside the pike.
Wikipedia: Lang Xian
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A lang xian, which can be translated as "wolf brush" or "wolf bamboo" or "multiple tipped bamboo spear" was a branched, multi-tipped spear with spikes on the branches made of bamboo or iron.
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