that sometimes in separate Bodies and on several Occasions as with Flying Camps at Sieges Attacks and with Detachments and Convoys The General as the Spring doth cause the Motion of all the Wheels the principal of which are the Lieutenant-Generals so should be Persons of tried Fidelity Courage and Ability Their Numbers are incertain they act according to the General 's Orders which they hand to others as in relation to Marches assigning Incampments Decampments ordering Ingagements commanding Retreats and Pursuits therefore Foresight Prudence Courage Knowledge and a presence of Mind in the greatest Hurry are their requisite Qualifications OF THE CAVALRY HORSE is so requisite in an Army that good Success in a great measure depends thereon for all Places are first possessed by them and those that exceed in their Numbers are likeliest to become Masters of the Field for by them Garisons are victualled the Army provided with Forrage Convoys Parties and Quarters beaten up surprised and sometimes carried away By the Horse it is that the Enemy is streightened the Country ravaged and harrassed by Incursions There is not an Enterprize of Hazard and Difficulty where the Horse is not concerned by their means Designs are compassed facilitated and expedited The Horse being so necessary so many of them are to be had as may answer the proportion of your Foot as well as that of the Enemies According to whose different Characters and Usefulnesses they are ordered whether as Cuirassiers Light-horse Dragoons Croates or Heydukes By these Passes are seized Blocades made and Contributions raised Marches expedited Pursuits and Surprises given in the expeditious executing of which they are more necessary and exceed the Foot whose slow Motions are often Impediments and cause Disappointments while the Horse by their quick and long Marches are the great Advantage though attended with Inconveniencies as being a greater Care and Charge Of the Trooper THis Post though the lowest yet from thence some have ascended to the highest Degree of Honour in Military Imploys and as the same Soil produces Grain of several sorts so the Bush and the Palm hath the same Origine for Virtue is not always found in elevated Fortunes nor will that Illustrious DAME be confined to Pallaces but the Country Cottage doth sometimes afford the World Heroes who from their Clods of Earth their Ploughs and Spades have ascended to the height of Honour These Considerations ought to quicken those in the most inferiour Station to be Emulators of those Ensamples of Virtue gone before them and incourage themselves with Hopes that by a patient persevering in Well-doing treading in their Steps having Incouragements with Opportunities they may justly aspire at that Honour and Glory that others before them have compassed But as his Mind should be aspiring and qualified with Courage and Bravery being undaunted fearing nothing but Shame and as his Inside is adorned with generous Virtues so his Outside should also have that of a comely Presence strong and manly rather tall than little and used to the Fatigues of riding not such as are taken from Towns or Cities where by an effeminate Life they are made tender and unfit for the Hardships of a Camp He should be young in Years from Twenty to Forty for Nature gives such Impressions to Age that ill Habits are not easily rectified but an old Trooper is a useful Member if grown so under Service whose Skill in Horsemanship need not be questioned which Knowledge all should at first bring with them As the choice of the Man is made so should also the Horse in some measure correspond who should neither be young nor old but strong-set well-limbed and not of a great heavy make yet large and full chested short and strongly coupled and jointed of clean Limbs and good Feet such as will stand Fire It is in Germany where Horses fit for Military Service most abound nor will any stand Fire like them As the Horseman is to be under the Command of his Superiour so he ought to have the Command of his Horse that neither Gun nor Drum shall disorder nor make him break his Rank Our Trooper should be as careful of his Horse as of himself and by being diligent careful and obedient to Order fearing his Captain more than his Enemy he may come to attain to that Preferment that his Merit calls for Of the Brigadier or Corporal THE Captain singles him out from among the eldest of the Troopers as judging him best qualified and experienced he is to the Horse what a Corporal or Serjeant is to the Foot in the Quartermaster's Absence he supplieth his Place To discharge his Duty well he must be no Stranger to Writing It is from him that the Captain expects an Account of all Omissions and Disorders with a List of the Horse and Men and of the Condition they are in When upon Duty by the Major's Order he sets the Vedetes whom he directs to prevent Remisness he often visits and in due time relieves them It is his Province to instruct the Troopers also what Forrage and Provisions are handed to him from the Quartermaster he distributes Of the Quarter-master HE is as a Steward to the Troop so should be prudent intelligent and faithful being intrusted with their Subsistence Courage Resolution and Diligence ought to be his Qualifications from him is expected a particular List of the Mens Names and Places from whence they are with whom he is to reckon pay and discount He sets down the Orders given him by his Officers and visits the Mens Quarters and Stables and doth see that all be in Order from the Horseman to the least of his Accouterments that from the Bridle to a Girth there be nothing wanting The Ammunition also is his Care which he distributes whether in the Field or Garrisons and takes Care that their Quarters be ready before their arrival He is to be at the Captains Quarters Morning and Evening to carry the Orders he hath received from his Major He commands Detachments and conducts them to their Place of Rendezvous His great Business is to see that the Troopers live in their Quarters in good order and that Complaints be silenced and Grievances redressed Thus by keeping good Quarter and assigning Quarters he hath given him the Name of Quarter-master Of the Cornet THis Post is the first Step to Honour being expensive is fit only for such as have Estates or are Gentlemen This Station is not so troublesome as honourable and should be filled up by a Man of Quality as his first Essay and if he hath before made a Campaign as a Volunteer he is the fitter for this Post But tho' Favour should have introduced him yet if his Inclination were the moving Cause Success may be expected for where generous Sentiments do put upon quest for Glory there Obedience will become easy and he will readily execute his Superiour's Orders and will set all his good Qualifications on work to compass his desired end There is in a natural
thousand but even sometimes the one of more than a hundred thousand and so deserving he may be as to be more worth than many thousands of the rest Such was the Voice of the People in David's time they very well knew that the Body must suffer in common with their Head therefore their Care was in a particular manner to preserve that as the Means on which their Preservation depended As he is the greatest so he ought to be the most excellent in all Heroick Qualifications and Noble by Birth Tho' this Post may be conferred as a Recompence to Virtue and Merit where noble Birth is not yet this Place is best adorned when filled by a Person of Honour and one that is born great whose Quality shall give him a Reputation which when therewith indued with Virtue Experience Conduct Liberality and Affability and these accompanied with an awful Majestick Mean he shall thereby influence Love and Fear in all concerned with him As he is the greatest so he ought to be the most deserving which Desert will set a Lustre on all his Commands and Actions This eminent Post in which he moves makes all good and evil Successes to be most remarkably his and as the Honour so the Faults lie at his door There are few Faults but the Consequences of them are small in comparison of those committed in Military Affairs for where an Army is routed and thousands cut down Countries and Towns pillaged destroyed and burnt besides the dishonour of a shameful Flight and sneaking into Holes and Corners whilst the Enemy rides in Triumph over Bag and Baggage and the Honour and Reputation of the Conquered which sinister Accident is attended with so many Discouragements that the Lost and Dishonour is seldom or never retrieved except Despair gives new wings to Action But when Success followeth our Hero at the Heels how honourable is it in particular to himself and how useful to his Prince and Country which gives occasion for his being registered in History where Posterity finds him a Monument of Fame left on Record for future Ages to imitate In short as his Faults are irreparable and cause Sadnesses Sorrows Tears and Lamentations Miseries and Slaveries so the contrary gives Joy even to Transports and fills the Mouths of each with Acclamations and Expressions of Praise and whereas the one hath Death and Desolations writ in the Countenance so the other hath painted Joy and Gladness to which every Motion of their Bodies are so many Contributes to express it Thus it appears requisite That the General be not only great as to his Birth but also as to his Personal Merit and to say all a Soldier who with these Qualifications if attended with Success will have his Head crowned with Honour But if Fortune prove unconstant then the most reasonable Attempts will be condemned though he may deserve by his Conduct more Honour than the Conqueror But why speak I of Fortune as if Providence did not predominate over Human Affairs This Fortune is no more than a Chimera the Idol of Fools for though Success be attributed to her yet it is God that gives the Victory it is not always to the Wise nor the Strong nor yet to Numbers to whom Success is given God reserves to himself the disposal of Victory that none might boast But single Instances of God's Power are not to be relied on for tho' he hath been pleased to give Victory by disproportionable Means as that one should kill a thousand and a few put ten thousand to Flight yet in our Days we have no Reason to expect such Miracles but rather Deliverances by a course of means which God himself hath appointed and recommended by his Examples to Mankind not suffering his own Armies among whom he had set up his Standard to enter upon Action in their promised Land till they were become a Multitude and we may as well expect Health and length of Days without Food and Phisick as Preservation in War without necessary Preservatives among which Preservatives the wise General deserves the first Place as being the chief Means if qualified and for those other Necessaries required they must be had in readiness in time thus being well supplied and armed and the Duty wisely and faithfully discharged the Success must be left to God Since Military Means are so necessary and that the General is the Head therefore he is supposed to have Qualifications to fit him for Action and to command People and Countries at home and abroad and that he have a Tincture of Literature and Arts that he be not imposed on by bold Recommenders of Trifles Also to be provident and liberal are requisite Qualifications He should be a Prince in his Temper yet sparing where Reason calls for it not believing himself lessened by taking Cognizance of the minutest Things relating to good Husbandry that Stores be not wasted The preventing Spoil and Havock is as much the Province of a General as those more sublime Actions of Battels Sieges and Surprises by good Husbandry and a provident Care Multitudes may be preserved from Want and sinister Accidents Also the General with his other Acquirements should know the Country where the Seat of War may be carried on therefore in time of Peace Rural Recreations as Hunting and Hawking may inform his Knowledge by which means he may be acquainted with Inclosures Uneavenness of Ground the Champion Country Marches Roads narrow Passages the Knowledge of which is useful to all Military Men. To be an accomplished Captain is obtained by great Labour and Industry and though they may be born Soldiers yet Experience is not attained but by Care and Application as appears by the great Work he hath to do on which depends his Care in reference to Incampments or Lodgings Marches Ingagements Sieges which are a mixture of Incamping and Ingaging All which fall to be spoken of in the next Place in their Order And First Of Incampments or Lodgings of which there are three sorts THE First is when an Army is on the Wing waiting every moment for Orders to march The Second is when an Army hath surrounded a Place in order to a Siege The Third Incampment is when the Army is in Apprehensions of an Enemy and so obliged to regulate its Motions with Caution then where Nature is found defective Art should supply by casting up proper Works for Security To which end he is to have in his Eye not only the Place where he is to Incamp or Lodge but also to consider the number of his Enemies with reference to his own and to regulate his Motions to Offend and Defend so that in Incampments or Lodgments he must have a regard to the Situation of Ground whether Mountainous Champion or replenished with Villages It is not always in the choice of a General to incamp where he desires but is necessitated to take such Measures as present Circumstances will permit though he aims at the being Master of rising Grounds and
to have the Benefit of Water and Wood and if possible of all narrow Accesses situated near him and accordingly he causes Intrenchments A Champion Country is much more to be desired than to have the Army dispersed in Villages being more healthful and less exposed to Incursions and Surprizes and thereby better capacitated through the means of Intrenchments to Offend and Defend Also Incampments should be chosen for the Conveniency of conveying Supplies for Obstructions on such Occasions have caused the Ruin of great Bodies and occasioned unseasonable Decampments and so given that Victory to those which otherwise might have least expected it had the Passages been open and free Of Marches HERE is Secrecy required whether it be to surprise an Army a Party or Place or that it be to prevent being surprised in Marching to which Speed Diligence and Secrecy is recommended for the being out-done or the out-doing an Enemy in Marches may prove the unhinging of Affairs for that Campaign to the one or the other and sometimes proves the loss of advanced Troops or of the Rear and many ill Consequences attend such whose Unhappiness it hath been to be surprised All Marches are regulated according to the Country either in order of Battel or in different Bodies and if they cannot come to their appointed Place by several Ways to lodge in one Body then they are to lodge as they march for sometimes Rivers and Hills with other Inconveniences of Ground may cause a greater Compass to be made than desired so no express Rules can be given Therefore Care is to be had in Marching for the Preservation of the Men and Safety of the Artillery and Carriages and to be armed against any Accident It may be sometimes advisable to take different Roads and if Decampments are made in the sight of the Enemy then secure the Out-Quarters to prevent being surprised and though the Enemy were distant yet Caution and Diligence is to be used according to the Nature of the way the Army marches as if he were at hand for the manner of Marches varies according to the Places through which they are to pass with respect to the Enemies distance and number of Carriages no Rules can be given such are the numerous intervening Accidents though some have laid down Methods for all sorts of Marches yet none can be tied up to them so that they are increased or diminished as may best answer the ends of securing the whole Also by Marches and Counter-marches there may accrue to the General as much Honour as if he had gained a Victory for an Enemy may thereby be baffled without Fighting Of Ingagements THE Gain or Loss of a Battel is of the greatest Consequence and is attended with such various Circumstances that it is hard to say any thing where so many Accidents may change the Scene and call for new Methods Ingagements are not to be undertaken without the greatest Consideration and that there be a Necessity drawn from Reason to defend or assault the wise Captain will be always armed against Accidents and if possible will secure such Ground as may best sute his Number of Horse and Foot with the Advantages of being Master of Rivers Woods narrow Passes rising Grounds and if the Wind and Sun will favour the Cause it is so much the better He will also have regard to the manner and form of Battel and to the times of Ingagings whether by Night or Day good or bad Weather and that with respect to the Place also the Numbers and Condition of the Enemy with their manner of Practise But seeing nothing contributes more to a Conquest than Stratagems therefore good Intelligence is necessary and Spies useful that Discoveries may be made of their Affairs and Motions as the manner of their Incampments their Numbers Intentions Supplies also setting active Spirits a-work to disperse Reports and promote Disorders may be necessary No Mony is better imployed than what is spent on Spies and Guides for by their Intelligence Measures are taken and accordingly Horse and Foot are disposed so that they may best succour each other To effect which a Foresight and Presence of Mind with an Eye every where is requisite to regulate Affairs for the Benefit and Security of the Army which ought more to be regarded than to offend an Enemy by destructive Measures a Fault of which some great Men have been guilty not caring so they did but attain their Ends how dearly it was purchased nor how many perished so the Victory were but obtained What need more be said than that whether there be occasion for retiring or pursuing there is always required Virtue Industry and Courage never to appear but with such Resolution as may give Hopes though in the midst of Dispair A regard also is to be had to the Pursurers and Pursued of the Captives and Wounded as well Enemies as Friends for Mercy and good Quarters should ever be the Portion of the Unhappy After the Ingagement is over Thanks should be returned by both Parties for the greatest Sufferers may find Matter of Thanks that Things are not worse and that they are left Monuments of Mercy at a time when Death reigned so that perhaps there mighc not have been left living sufficient to bury their Dead which makes the return of Praise more reasonable in those that remain living As to Sieges they are a mixture of Incamping and Ingaging TOWNS as well as Persons have a Fate that hangs over them for as there is none which first or last have not been more or less besieged with Humane Infirmities incident to them so there are few Towns that ever escaped the Fate of being besieged though Time may have worn out the Memory thereof Such Designs ought to be carried on with Secresie and feigned Marches and Counter-marches amusing the Enemy by giving a Jealousie to adjacent Places as if the Storm were to fall on them each in particular that through Incertainties not knowing where the Storm will fall they may be obliged to divide their Forces which may give opportunity to surprize the Enemy when they shall not know where to send Supplies After having secured the Avenues then with Diligence proceed to Action for the sudden setting down before a Place gives Terror which being invirioned then Egress and Regress is to be prevented and the Camp is to be secured by Lines of Circumvallation and Countervallation which are a Shelter from the Enemies Sallies and from Attacks from without Also Provisions are to be secured coming to the Camp which cannot well be effected if the Besiegers be not Masters of the Field Early Information is to be had of the Situation of the Place how Manned and stored and of its various sort of Works and Avenues with the manner how the Ground and Rivers lie that Approaches may be Regular and the Enemies prevented being relieved that Heights be secured that the Camp be not annoyed Also Portable Bridges are to be provided for passing Rivers and to
Conquests but let them go as soon like the Northern People who have over-run Nations yet never established any Empire they were great Enterprisers but their Government like a Morning-Dew soon vanished and like Thunder and Lightning they gave Terror and Amazement but was of no continuance Of the Artillery and the Officers belonging thereunto ARtillery in an Army is a great Contributer to Victory though a Cumber and a Charge that formerly the World was not acquainted with but now is become so essential to the carrying on a War that no Victory can be expected where it is not therefore great Provisions are made of Guns and Powder whose Invention surely was borrowed from Lightning and Thunder both having the same effects to give Terror and to do Mischief but their Noise animates the Spirits of those ingaged in Action The Charge is great for many are the Materials of which an Artillery is composed for besides Guns of all sizes with Powder and Ball there are Mortars Petards Bombs Grenadoes and other Ingines of Destruction with Combustibles for Fire-works all which require Carriages that have their Drivers and Artificers at hand as Gunners Smiths Carpenters c. Also Instruments for breaking Ground raising Batteries making Trenches and Mines c. And with the number of Necessaries there must be found Pontons Ladders c. that whatever Accident arrives there may ber nothing wanting Also for Subsistence there must be Grain of all sorts for Horse and Men with Mills and Ovens all which when together swells to so great a Bulk that this Warlike Retinue alone looks like an Army and is under the Conduct Of the General of the Artillery WHO ought to be a Man of Quality having Experience of the particular Offices and Business of every one under his Command and to know what is necessary for the undertaking any Enterprize whether in the Field or at Sieges among the rest that of the Duty of the Ingenier therefore he should be versed in the Mathematicks the better to judge of the Merit of those in that Post whether they have Courage as to dare expose themselves and also in Arts if able to improve Fortifications to mend Faults and to make a true Judgment of Heights Depths and Distances and to point accordingly to the best Advantage also how to make Approaches and Lodgments and to place and raise Batteries and with safety advance his Works It is the General of the Artillery's Care that none be in Posts but such as are capable to discharge them as also that there be no want of necessary Munitions of War nor Provisions of any sort that Stores be not imbezel'd nor decayed but that timely Recruits be made in all Particulars Of Provisions WIthout Provisions great Bodies cannot be kept together who are a continual Consumption of Stores whose particular numbers ought to be well known and additional Allowances made lest there be a falling short That there may be no Waste there is a Purveyor appointed who procures also Supplies and appoints proper Places for Stores with the times when they are to be delivered out and that he see there be a proportionable number of Bakers who with all the other Officers relating all the Stores are under the Command of a Commissary-General WHO ought to be a Man of Authority not covetous but faithful vigilant and skilled in buying and chusing the best and disposing all to the best Advantage for the Good Ease and Conveniency of the Army and that what is procured may be conveyed under safe Convoy This Care is the more necessary in that the Welfare of an Army depends thereon for Want destroys more than Fatigues or ranged Battels Therefore Supplies are made before the Army march and all Things are to be regulated that there be no occasion for Complaint The ill managing this Trust may ruin the hopefullest Enterprize the Thoughts of finding Supplies on the Place are not to be relied on but he is to arm himself for the worst for the Enemy may have either carried of or destroyed the Effects Therefore Magazines are to be dispersed for the best Advantage for the recaption of Stores of which there should be provided before-hand in the Camp a competent Provision for a certain time that Disappointments may not bring Disorder Therefore Supplies should never move without strong Convoys who should have their Marches appointed at uncertain times Also Inspection is to be taken that there be no Abuses from the Keepers nor Deliverers of Stores nor from Sutlers and that such as are found Offenders in that kind be made publick Examples Of the Baggage AS the Artillery is a cumbersome Body so we may say of the Baggage that it is a very troublesome Equipage which in some Places exceeds more than in others and that from the Negligence of those that should see Abuses regulated by reducing the Bulk to a less Compass to effect which each Soldier with his Arms and Budget should carry some Days Provisions with him for those most inured to Fatigue are the likeliest to obtain Victory for it is observable that as those who can keep fresh Troops for Action to the last so those that can weather Want and indure Labour longest are likeliest to obtain the Victory But where Idleness reigns so that every Soldier must have his On-hanger what can be expected from such slothful Companions Therefore that loose Gang that follows Camps should be discouraged for from these it is that Effeminacy Want and Diseases are ingender'd But seeing there is so great Trouble to preserve this so cumbersome Luggage and that when lost is attended with so much Dishonour and is so prejudicial bringing such irremediable Disorders therefore it is advisable that the Baggage be reduced to as small a Retinue as possible Of the Master of the Waggons HIS Business is to take charge of all Carriages to order their Marches to see them quartered and supplied with Necessaries for Horse and Man He should have under his Command Persons skilled in the Roads and in driving with such a number of Artificers as may answer any Misadventure that may happen in the way He ought to have been brought up to driving and himself to understand the Roads through which he is to pass His Business is to take daily Inspection into his Crew and timely to supply Defects of both Man and Horse and that all be kept in good order Of the Subservients to the Army as Aides de Camp Chaplains Physicians Chirurgeons Provosts Guides Spies Of Aides de Camp THIS is a Post for a Gentleman whose Business is to attend the General He is as an honourable Messenger that carrieth his Orders which are not to be questioned It is requisite that he have Courage Wit and Fidelity which with the Annex of Prudence by improving himself and being faithful he may procure his Advancement Of Chaplains THEY are Spiritual Guides to regulate the Immoralities As there are Directors for the disciplining and using Arms so each Regiment should have
Know an Enemy before thou despise him He that feareth not an Enemy knows not what War is Prudence is necessary in undertaking and Resolution in execution Preparations secure a lasting Peace and make way for Victory Never use Arms where you can conquer with Money Overcome your Enemy by Policy rather than Fight When an Enemy cannot be opposed then tolerable Conditions of Peace are welcome To penetrate the Designs of an Enemy is a Mark of a piercing Capacity but to conceal our own is to excell in Prudence Wise Parlies do sometimes more than armed Forces He that will not hear Reason is not fit to reign That Prince deserves to reign long whose good Actions exceed his Works He that hath no Friend cannot be said to reign Vice make Princes odious when the meanest Man is made honourable by Virtue Those that excell not in Virtue deserve not to command Good Actions recommend more than Riches Examples of Virtue are of greater efficacy than Instructions A good Opinion is of more use than Riches He that will be esteemed must always do well A Kingdom may be thought invincible when Immoralities are banished A Prince ought to be armed against all Accidents One may begin a War but the Victorious only can end it A prudent Jealousie is a commendable Qualification the excess is of ill consequence That Prince may do what he pleases when he wills nothing but what he ought That Prince that compasses his ends by Treaty deserves more Honour than he that overcomes by Battel Where a Prince hath lost his Authority there Obedience cannot be expected Revenge is not laudable in a Chief and often is the cause of fatal Consequences A good Prince makes good Subjects A Friend in an Enemies Council is more advantagious than thousands in the Field All Contests like Cockatrices Eggs are to be crush'd in the Shell Opprobrious Words may incense but not beat an Enemy Let a Door be open for a desperate Enemy to enter either by Composition or Quarter Severity as well as Clemency are prejudicial and may excite Rebellion Enemies are not to be insulted nor triumph'd over Let your Enemies arming cause you to arm Use as Friends those you would make yours for Fire and Sword doth but quicken Resistance Some profit by Differences fomented among Neighbouring Princes Small Shrubs by bending weather a Storm when great sturdy Oaks are torn up by the Roots There is neither Prudence nor Profit in being of too open a Conduct Great Souls like Rocks are immoveable There is no Policy in having more Enemies than one at once Expose not to hazard more than what cannot be avoided Right Intelligence is requisite as well in reference to ones own as the Enemies Strength Set a good Face on a bad Matter in the greatest Exigencies shew Courage and Constancy To be first ready is advantagious Ambition and Coveteousness break Leagues and awaken War Fortune sporteth it self in making great little and little great To boast over an Enemy is insulting and provokes to Insurrection Where Want reigns no Discipline is observed The Commonalty is more prompt to Rebellion than Battel and apter to Talk than Fight It is the Bane of Armies when Quality and not Merit are the Foundation of Preferment Trust not where you have been deceived It is needless to declare War against those prone to it from former Successes Breakers of honest Confederacies deserve Censure He is in the wrong that gives the Cause of War not he that seeks Redress Delays in Danger are the Mother of insuing Evils Failings of Superiours make them in the Eyes of Inferiours contemptible Well-weigh'd Counsel seldom fails There is a happy Minute more worth than all the Policies of War Fortune is no where so inconstant as in War One Hours Distaster may overthrow the Honour gotten and ruin future Expectations Faults in War are irreparable Though Money be the Sinews of War yet by Science Prudence and Personal Valour Victory is obtained Success is not to be expected where Money is scant and Enemies abound He that gets by Conquest doth much but he that can keep what he hath gotten doth more Numbers are little available where Fear reigns The Captain 's end should be Glory not to be a Scourge seeking by Conquest to build up not to confound Those that are unfaithful to their own Interest will not be true to anothers Awe makes Tyrants obeyed and Love Soveraigns Many Things are lost for not being attempted Courage and Courtesie are great Ornaments to a Captain As Rewards are necessary so are Chastisements A Captain ought to be diligent watchful and of a resolute Spirit wise to command liberal to reward and valiant to defend Happy is that Country where Men of Merit are not discouraged and where Favours are not ill placed It is Valour 's Badge neither to fear nor to be too confident Fortune never waits on the Fearful Fear stifles generous Undertakings in their birth Fear is honourable when it proceeds not from a personal Concern but for the welfare of the whole Tameness in Officers is a Discouragement and causes Deserters Nothing unarms a People like Effeminacy Lust Pleasure and Idleness Fortune and Prudence are usually Companions He that is feared by many hath reason to fear many He hurts the Good that spares the Ill Though a Wound may be cured yet the Scar remains No Danger is overcome without Danger Despair sets on edge Courage and makes Cowards valiant and spirits them in Combat The Effects of Despair are surprising and have the same product which true Courage hath in others Great Souls are capable of great Things and if Power be annexed then may be reasonably expected great Performances The Soldier should not only be daring and bold but have also a Faculty of contriving for Invention is as necessary as Valour It is not safe to Disband Forces while the Enemies are on foot When an Enemy is secure then attack him Let the Intelligence of your Enemies Motions be at hand tho' they be far off Early inure an Army to Hardships before Necessity reduces them to it Let Courage increase with Danger for by losing the one you hazard all It is necessary in Officers to have a natural Propensity to great Actions To stand the Enemies first Fury is the way to overcome Fortresses should be Nurseries to undisciplined Soldiers The more Enemies the more Honour Cowards have Lyons Mouths but Hearts like Hares A prudent Retreat is as honourable as a Victory Spend not time in Plunder till the Work is done The Generous will not be discouraged tho' their Merit meets not with due Applause He deserves not the Name of Victor that conquers basely Generosity is never so commendable as when exercised towards an Enemy Victory moderated by Prudence is splendid and safe The falling on the Spoil hath often been the Bane of Armies To be sedate in a Hurry and calm in Confusion to preserve a Presence of Mind in the greatest Exigencies are necessary Requisits in
a General Disciplined Soldiers without good Officers will not answer the end Temerity is seldom successful but upon necessity Boldness exceeds Counsel Incounter not Enemies in their height of Fury Those have gained Honour from the want of Courage in an Adversary that else would have had Disgrace Ill use is made of Victory when none is spared Old Veteran Troops ought not to be chosen for desperate Enterprizes but young Years and boiling Youth who have no Thought but that of Success and Glory He that hath most Courage is least cruel Private Men should have publick Marks of Honour as a President to incite others to desire that their Heads may be crown'd with such Laurels There may be as great Cruelty in sparing all as to spare none Victory should not thirst after Blood nor be cruel to obtain it What Power and Policy cannot bring about Gold may effect The Question ought rather to be where the Enemies are than how many least it give to think that Fear rather than Valour made the Query The Sword dispatches quickly but Fear strikes down like Thunder He is soonest hurt who feareth most Great Souls in glorious Enterprises have no sense of Danger The more Danger the more Glory The Foundation of Military Knowledge should be laid even from Youth The time for Battel is when Men are most spirited for Action An Army kept idle degenerates and are troublesome Guests where quartered Never be confident of Victory nor yet despair of Success Intestine Animosities ruin the greatest Bodies Aim at Numbers but trust not in them Courage makes all Enterprizes easy Delays may turn the Scales so that the Conqueror may become the Conquered It is an unprofitable Victory that is obtained by the Ruin of ones own Country That Victory is not perfect where the Heart is not made Captive as well as the Body To overcome by Clemency is more honourable than to subdue by the Sword Courage is shown more in the choice to die free than to suffer a languishing Captivity in an Enemies Country An unlimited Power is of great use to capacitate the General to do great Things which he that waits for Orders cannot effect There is Incouragement to attempt a Siege when the Governour is known to be capable of being corrupted The Knowledge of a Garrisons being over-stored may as soon draw on a Siege as when its Wants are discovered Palliate Disgraces and call Flights Retreats Let Spies be rather your Enemies Subjects than your own Spies are the Generals Ferrets which are gained by Money and preserved by Hope Fortified Places Armies and Fleets are vain Things when God lends not a Hand Perjury calls for Judgment but more eminently when found in Princes He that can turn Revenge into Mercy and Hatred into Love is Praise-worthy A mean spirited Prince is rather the Object of Contempt than Fear Religion is the usual Cloak for Rebellion Furious Spirits are seldom appeased by soft Words nor Submissions It is best for Princes to judge only according to Equity to do nothing but what is expedient and labour not so much to shew their Authority as their Justice Vindicative Spirits are their own Tormenters No Game is too great for Lookers on say Neuters Greatness and Care are Twins Soveraigns are Judges here yet they are judged themselves and arraigned at the Tribunal of every private Mans Censure Though Soveraigns are Gods on Earth yet they see and hear with others Eyes and Ears and are obliged accordingly to take Measures The Wise proceed to Action with Caution but the Unexperienced are rash in their Enterprizes Sometimes Temerity is of more Use and a greater Advantage than more prudent Measures The General 's Staff is an Ornament but it loads as well as it adorns The Enemies Quarters are easilier beat up and surprized when their Distances have made them secure Let Ambushes be a Secret least the being circumvented make designed for the place of Victory The Wise never wonder nor are surprized for nothing happens to them but what they expected and are armed for its reception FINIS Books Printed for and sold by John Jones at the Dolphin and Crown in Saint Paul's Church-Yard POpery Superstition Ignorance and Knavery very unjustly by a Letter in the General pretended but as far as was Charg'd very fully proved upon the Dissenters that were concerned in the Surey Imposter By Zach. 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