Spanish foot
Americannoun
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Glenn Kirkham forced a penalty corner after the ball hit a Spanish foot.
From The Guardian
In 1658 Colonel Edward Doyley, the governor, gained a decisive victory over thirty companies of Spanish foot, and sent ten of their flags to Cromwell.
From Project Gutenberg
Some writers carry the Spanish foot to fifty thousand.
From Project Gutenberg
Our allies were likewise ordered to follow the example of the Spanish foot; this was accordingly done and the object accomplished.
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The troops he took with him consisted of two hundred and fifty Spanish foot, thirty horse, with a good number of musketeers and crossbow-men; accompanied by the whole of our Tlascallan friends, and a company of the best warriors of Tezcuco.
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