Oh Boy!

Another coffee shop drawing.  The bunny is holding an anachronistic weapon, a sort of glaive.   These pole arms were developed after the fall of the Roman empire in order to give the foot soldiers, or "residue", some sort of chance against armored cavalry.  The one depicted is for dragging and stabbing.  Not until the development of gunpowder did the cavalry, i.e. armored knights lose it's battlefield supremacy.  True, the English had great success with the longbow, sometimes.  But that depended as much on French aggression  as on the thews of the Welsh yeomen.  

But longbows take a lifetime of practice to use effectively.  The development of the battle musket suddenly turned every despised farmer into a unit of fire.  This is what swept away the poor treatment of the infantry, not the availability of class conquering weapons.  It was probably Vauban who invented the socket bayonet, and now there was no need for pikemen, the most useless mouth to feed on any battlefield.  

I say, anyone for, er...Tennis?