How the Tercio Held the Line 🛡️ #history #military #warfare

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]A 21-year-old, it turns [music] out, had useful service of both. The Spanish flanks buckled. In a century of fighting, the flanks of a tercio formation had never buckled, and yet the center held. The veteran Spanish infantry, men who had trained for this, who had lived this, refused to break.

[00:00:19]They closed ranks. They absorbed the pressure. Their discipline was extraordinary, almost inhuman. These were men who had trained for exactly this moment, and when the moment arrived, they did not flinch. The tercio still stood, and then the battle changed.