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Rehnskiöld advocated that the infantry should be organized into battalions of 600 men, one-third pikemen and two-thirds musketeers.

Units of musketeers were originally developed to support units of pikemen.

As firearms became more effective and widely used, the composition of these pike-and-musket units changed, with pikemen eventually becoming support units to the musketeers, particularly against cavalry.

It contained 6,500 men-at-arms, 2,000 pikemen and 1,500 crossbowmen and archers.

Meanwhile, part of the rebel troops, mostly Dutch and Scots led by Colonel Henry Balfour, tried to take defensive positions, but could not withstand the musketeers and pikemen led by John, Mondragón, and Gonzaga.

They swept aside the Huguenot French infantry, who were poorly armed with few pikemen, and the remaining Huguenot Landsknecht regiment retreated without striking a blow.

They poured arquebus fire into the advancing Huguenots who, having used their lances earlier, could not break the pikemen.

The 19th century American historian John Lothrop Motley, on the other hand, reduces the strength of the English force to 200 cavalry and 300 pikemen, though adding that "a much stronger force of infantry was held in reserve and readiness".

He deployed his cavalry in two squadrons, formed a large infantry battalion, put 300 or 350 advanced pikemen under Sir William Stanley and Lord Audley next to the way, and flanked the road with sleeves of musketeers and arquebusiers.

The Spanish vanguard was driven off by the English at the first charge, but the Spanish pikemen under Captains Pedro Manrique and Manuel de Vega, from Francisco Arias de Bobadilla's and Juan del Águila's tercios, formed the defenders into squadron formation and kept the way open for the wagons.

Stanley's pikemen charged upon the Spanish squadron, but they were repelled at the push of pike.

A handful of Spanish pikemen, including some low ranking officers, disobeyed their orders and began to pursue the English.

A charge by Scottish pikemen drove the English back in disarray.