Wagon fort the square would usually be the cavalry. There were two principal stages of the battle using the wagon fort: defensive and counterattack. The defensive part would be a pounding of the enemy with artillery. The Hussite artillery was a primitive form of a howitzer, called in Czech a "houfnice", from which the English word howitzer comes. Also, they called their guns the Czech word "píšťala" (hand cannon), meaning that they were shaped like a pipe or a fife, from which the English word pistol is possibly derived. When the enemy would come close to the wagon fort, crossbowmen and hand-gunners
Witch (word) Old English also had "hægtesse" "witch, fury", whence Modern English "hag", of uncertain origin, but cognate to German "Hexe", from an Old High German "haga-zussa", Common Germanic "*haga-tusjon-" (OED), perhaps from a "*tesvian" "to mar, damage", meaning "field-damager" (the suggestion of Grimm). The element "hag-" originally means "fence, wooden enclosure", and hence also "enclosed fields, cultivated land". Other Old English synonyms of "wicca" and "wicce" include "gealdricge", "scinlæce", "hellrúne". The Old English plural form for both the masculine and feminine nouns was "wiccan" ("witches") and "wiccecræft" was "witchcraft". The earliest recorded use of the word is in the "Laws of