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A51540	An epitome of the whole art of war In two parts. The first of military discipline, containing the whole exercise of the pike and musquet, &c. with plain directions for the various postures. Also the drawing up of battalions, and way of forming them; with the art of doubling, wheeling, forming and drawing up an army into any figure. The way of conducting armies in hilly, woody or plain countries: of encampings, besiegings, giving of battle, &c. The second of fortification and gunnery, which shews the principles and practices of fortification, as now used, as well by the English, as several other European nations, (especially by Their Majesties army) at the late siege of Athlone, Galoway, Limerick, &c. ... Of casements, cittadels, crownworks, ravelins, &c. Of gunnery, ... morters, demy-cannon, &c. with the manner of batteries, &c. All illustrated and further explained by 18 copper-plates, curiously designed and engraven.	Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.; J. S., Capt. Military discipline.; J. S., Capt. Fortification and military discipline.	1692 (1692)	Wing M3002; ESTC R217907	42,745	122

Center through the Intervals of the Pikes E and then divide them by half files One half File shall advance toward M and the other half File shall stand their ground behind the Pikes E. For the 304 Musquetiers that remain they shall make the two Files that surround the whole Body PLATE V. The way and manner of reducing a Battalion with a void space in the Center YOU begin with the Musquetiers which you command from the Center through the several fronts MPEQ which together with those that surrounded the Body you cause to rank and file themselves as they were As for the Pikes that form the Octogonal Body you give them the following words of Command 1. They that stand in the Angles to your Places O and R. resume their distances and make the same front at Q. The files V and I do the same in respect of P and the files LL observe the same order in regard of the Pikes ME. 2. The twelve files of the right wing and the twelve files of the left wing that doubled Front and Reer stand fast OQR VPT 3. March files of the wings that have received the word of command OQR and VPT move off and march forward Plate IV Fig 1. 5. The Files that marched toward the Center to their places the four small Squares NNNN return to the Front of M. and E. 6. The middle Files stand upon your Guard E. M. 7. The half File of the middle Files half a Turn to the Right M makes a Front towards the same Center 8. File-Leader of the middle Files half a Turn to the Right E makes a Front towards the same Center 9. March middle Files E and M move forward till they come upon the Front CDQ and PAB of the first Figure 10. File-Leader of those that marched half a Turn to the Right E returns to its first Front and the Battalion is reduced Directions for Firing 1. In keeping of Ground This way of Firing may be performed either by two Ranks at a time or three Ranks The first Kneeling and the second Stooping or the two first Stooping or else thus Musketeers make ready all at which time the Musketeers are to be Cocked and Guarded and their Arms strait before them the Pikes Ported and when the Musketeers Present the Pikes are to be charged Then The five first Ranks Kneel The Reer Rank Present Fire Fifth Rank stand up Present Fire Fourth Rank Stand up Present Fire And so of the rest And as they have fired they are to charge again and to be in a readiness against the next Word of Command 2. For Fire gaining Ground the Command is First Rank and Musketeers make ready Halt Then Present and Fire Here they are to recover their Arms without any command and to file off to the Right and Left into the Reer When the first Rank presents the next Rank is to make ready without any Command and as the first Rank files off the next make good the Front and so the Battalion is to March again and every Rank to Fire in this order And when every Rank presents the Pikes are to charge without any command 3. Of Firing to the Front retreating The best way is to Fire by single Ranks in the same method as in gaining Ground only after every Rank has fired and filed off to the Right and Left into the Rear instead of the next Rank advancing to make good the Front of Pikes the Pikes are to retreat to the Musketeers who stand still till the Pikes make an even Front with them PLATE VI. The best Way and Method of Marching an Army in a Flat and Plain Country Plate V. A Regiment of 12 Companies Encamped Officer in Cheif Captains Saba●terns Souldiers Serjeants Muskets Pikes Profile for Trenches Profile for Redoubts All the Companies being drawn up they shall begin to March and must range themselves in Squadrons and Battalions to be afterwards embattel'd in the Ground marked out by the Marshal of the Camp or his Assistants The Marshal of the Camp ought in the first place to be exactly informed of the condition of the Country through which the Army is to march taking his Instructions from the general and particular Maps of the Country or from the Information of the Country People He shall draw up his Men in Battel-Array according as he thinks most convenient or as the General shall have given him Order If it be through a plain and open Country which is convenient for the Cavalry the Artillery and Waggons then let him extend the Wings of the Army and observe the following Order He shall divide his Army into three Bodies that in the middle must consist of three Thirds of the whole Infantry drawn up in great Bodies and Battalions each consisting of two or three Regiments Upon the Wings or Flank of this Infantry must be placed the great Artillery guarded by some Battalion of the Infantry Upon the Right and Left Wing of this middle Line shall the Cavalry march in little Squadrons each consisting of two Cornets The rest of the Infantry marching in little Bodies shall enclose between it and the Cavalry the Baggage and Ammunition of the Army with some Field Pieces as may be observed by the March represented in the Figure PLATE VII Of the March of an Army through an Enemies Country IF there be a Necessity to carry the War into the Enemies Country either to Besiege some place therein or else for the Relief of some place already besieged whether the Enemy be beaten in the Field or whether he still keep the Field to put new Supplies of Men and Provision into the Garrison or hinder Provision from being brought to the Enemies Camp Upon all these Occasions whether he encamp in the Field or Quarter in Villages the General must take care that the Commissary General of the Victuals and the Treasurers at War be diligent and faithful in their Charge in providing and furnishing the Army with Victuals If the Enemy has been routed and be not in a condition to recruit then you may march as in the preceeding Pages whether the Country be open or streighter Plate VI. Plate VIII The Cavalry must be placed upon the Wings in Front and in the Reer of the Bodies The Infantry must march in the middle and in a gross Battalion The Artillery upon one side guarded by some old Regiments as you see in the Plate PLATE VIII General Directions for Encamping an Army WHEN the Camp-Master General or Major-General hath read the Number of the Horse and Foot that are in the Army he must proportion and cast up what space of Ground will suffice to encamp them with all their Provision Carriages and so that neither for due Room the Soldiers be pestered nor by over large Spaces the Camp not sufficiently fortified This being of great Importance it will be requisite for him to understand well Arithmetick and Geometry and to have in readiness sundry Plats and Models and Forms of

Camps whereby he may suddenly resolve for any Number or Situation what Form and Quality is most convenient and presently stake it out assigning due place for every Regiment of Horse and Foot Before Encamping he ought to consider if the Army consist much of Horse that there be good store of Forrage nigh the Camp and that the Camp be not subject to any Hill from whence the Enemy may with his great Artillery incommode it Nor that it be so separated from Water that the Enemy may easily cut you from it nor that it be so low as that the Enemy by cutting the Banks of any River may drown the Camp And if there be no great Rivers but only Fountains or Wells of Water then must good Watch be kept that they be not poysoned nor infected by the Enemy In a running or moveable Camp the readiest Fortification is to impale it round with the Carriages chained together bending the Artillery that way where most suspicion is the Enemy will approach and if time permit to cast some Trench also without the Carriages PLATE IX The manner of Ranging a Battel in order to a present Engagement Plate IX Sometimes he engages himself voluntarily designing to relieve some place that is Besieged But what way soever it be that he is forced to come to a Battel he must endeavour to order his Men after the following manner He shall range his Infantry in Battalions every one consisting of five or six hundred Men or a thousand Men which are the most convenient Numbers with the Numbers between to form a just Body For those Bodies that exceed the number of a thousand can never be drawn up conveniently upon all sorts of Ground and such as are under 500 will never be strong enough to resist at the same time the fury of the Enemies Horse His Cavalry which should be always drawn up upon the Wings of the Infantry must be drawn up in Squadrons consisting of an hundred and twenty or thereabouts But the best and those that are most serviceable to break the Battalions of the Enemy are those that consist of 150 or 200 at most for if they exceed the number of 200 they are not easily nor conveniently drawn up by reason of the length of their Ranks and the number of Horses And thus it was that the late Duke de Schonberg Embattled his Forces at the Battel of Montesclar which he won from the Marquess of Caracene An Army which is Embattelled in small Divisions of Horse and Foot is not so easily routed as that Army which is Embattelled in great Divisions And small Divisions are much more ready than great For besides seconding one another and wheeling upon all occasions they will likewise outfront an Army which is Embattled in great Divisions The which is one of the greatest advantages that can be taken in the Embatteling of an Army Small Divisions of Horse and Foot are also much readier for service where you cannot Embattel them according to the Rules of Art by the nature of the place or with Inclosures or where the brevity of time will not give you leave besides small Divisions are much more troublesome for an Enemy to deal withal than an Army that is Embatteled in great Divisions FINIS OF FORTIFICATION PART II. Of general Maxims or Rules observed in Fortifications IN the handling of this Part I shall be plain yet brief as possible 1. General Maxim is That all the parts of the Place be of Cannon Proof Flanked i. e. defended from another place which place is not further distant than the reach of a Musket-shot from the place to be flanked or defended 2. That in all the Place there may be no part of the Wall or outside of the Rampire that is not seen from the top to the bottom of the Mote or Ditch 3. That the Bastions are large and full of Earth and not empty the bigger they are they are the more to be esteemed there being the more room to intrench in case of necessity whose Gorge let be at least 35 fathoms and their flank at least 18 fathoms 4. That the Angle of the Bastion or flanked Angle be not much above 90 nor much less than 60 Degrees for in the former it would be too very Obtuse and open at the Point and in the latter it would be too slender and so easily to be battered down by the Enemies Cannon 5. That the Angle of the flank may be somewhat Obtuse neither is there any more virtue in a Right-Angle than any other for the defence of the Fort. 6. That the length of an extended Curtain be not above 135 Fathoms nor the single above 80 Fathoms nor be less than 40 Fathoms to be well defended from two Flanks 7. That the Rampier be so wide that so a Parapet of Earth Cannon-proof may be erected thereon and a Teraplane left full wide for the Ordnance to be recoiled 8. That the Mote or Ditch be at least 20 Fathoms broad and as deep as possible Now dry Motes in great Cities are to be preferred before others that are full of Water to facilitate the Sallies the relief and retreat of the Besieged and in small Fortifications the Motes full of Water are the most esteemable because in such Sallies are not necessary and Supplies are very much to be feared 9. That the Parts that are most remote from the Center be commanded by those which are nearest to it 10. That the Defence of a Face is much stronger when the Angle made by the Face and Exterior Polygon is a great Angle this Maxim is so very essential that it will try the goodness of any Fortification whatsoever Thus I have described the Ten chiefest Maxims necessary for good Fortifications PLATE I. Of Cazemates BEFORE I give you the Measures of my Cazemates I shall explain all the parts of which they are compos'd A is the winding pair of Stairs to descend from the Rampart into the first Cazemate which is six foot high above the bottom of the Mote And this is that which I call the Great Cazemate B is the Great Cazemate seen in part by the Besiegers when they are lodged upon the Level of their Paropets and Courtains C. Is the Paropet of the Cazemate 3 or 4 fathom thick to cover the Cannon and the Cannoneers from the sight of the Counter-Batteries of the Besiegers when they have either raised or earthed them within the Counterscarps D. Is a part of the great Cazemate wrought farther in always covered and defended by the Great Ear and flanked Angle of the opposite Bastion E. Is its Paropet or Breastwork 3 or 4 fathoms thick F. Is the Magazine for Powder Bullets and other Ammunition belonging to the Cazemate it must be cover'd and hollow'd inward into the solid substance of the Bastion G. Is the pair of Stairs into the second Cazemate H. Is the second Cazemate that lies out of sight as being about two thirds of it not to be seen by the