Assertion: shot | /r/CapableOf | serve as a skirmish screen
Facets:
value: in front of the battalion
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Although inspired by the Romans, Maurice's soldiers carried the weapons of their day—250 were pikemen and the remaining 300 were arquebusiers and musketeers, 60 of the shot serving as a skirmish screen in front of the battalion, the rest forming up in two equal bodies, one on either side of the pikemen.