Click on the colored sections of the above image
to see examples of Jamestown artifacts.

These drawings of soldiers by Jacob de Gheyn illustrate his The Exercise of Armes. This is a manual commissioned by Johann II of Nassau for training soldiers in the handling of arms. It analyzes each of the movements required for loading and firing a musket as well as for handling a pike. The arms and armor depicted on these soldiers had been standardized in the Netherlands by 1600 and was quickly adapted by the English.