QuickSheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to Historical Proof by Elizabeth Shown Mills How foot battalions went from

How foot battalions went from up to one third of all soldiers armed only with defensive weapons (the pike) to battalions fully armed with both offensive and defensive weapons

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QuickSheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to Historical Proof by Elizabeth Shown Mills How foot battalions went fromAccording to professional genealogist Elizabeth Mills, 'Proof' is a conclusion we reach from a body of evidence. No single source can serve as 'proof.' No one piece of information can provide it. No one bit of evidence can stand alone. To support this thesis, Ms. Mills suggests three ways to arrive at 'proof': Evaluating the source; evaluating the information; and evaluating and processing the evidence. In the first instance she shows us that a source