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A74980 An abridgement of the English military discipline. Great Britain. Army. 1676 (1676) Wing A102A; ESTC R200457 11,408 88

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to their degrees The Lieutenants are to be Placed two in the Front two in the Rere and one on each Flank The Colours are to be in the Center of the Pikes The Serjeants are to be Placed one on the Right and Left of each Rank If a Battalion consist of more then Six Companies the respective Officers are to be Placed according to the discretion of the Commander of the Battalion It were not amiss to Place the Company of the Captain that Commands the left Wing of Shot on the left of all that Wing unless the Battalion be the outermost on the Line for then the Collonels Company is to be on the Left of all in this case the Right and Left Exchanging In a Battel the Captains and other Officers are to March in a Line but coming within Shot of the Enemy and the Musqueteers Marching ready with their Pans guarded the whole Line of Captains and other Officers is to retire each of them into the Intervals of his Files next after his Post yet so as they may look to the Right and Left of the Battalion Whilst they are Marching towards the Enemy they are to be very careful to keep themselves in this Posture and neither to be forwarder nor backwarder neither without the Battalion nor within it And when they begin to March with their Pikes Charged and that the Musqueteers are ready the Ranks are to be closed forward to one small Pace Assoon as the Battalion comes to thirty Paces distance from the Enemy let the Musqueteers Fire the manner of which Firing shall be ordered them before The Captain Commanding the Rere is to observe that the Battalion March still to cause the Souldiers to close forward easily and without noise or confusion His chief care ought to be to Command the Pikes ever to March even with the Wings of Musqueteers For it often happens that in Marching any considerable time in Battel the Wings Advance and form a Half-moon and the Pikes in the middle being extremely pressed upon the Battalion is broken Provided the motion of the Pikes be equal on the Right and Left the Battalion cannot be disordered by its March Above all we are carefully to preserve the distance of Ranks and Files according to what hath been said already The Grenadeers when there are any are to be drawn up on the Right of the Battalion and to augment it without intermixing with it or troubling the Order of it they being a separate number of Men that are to be always ready for whatever shall be Commanded them The Commander of a Battalion may be on Horsback at the Head of it when the Captains are on Foot with their Pikes in their hands in consideration that he is to be stirring to all parts to see that the distances be observed and above all that none speak except himself or the Major by his Order The Commander of a Battalion is to alight when the Musqueteers make ready and is to March with his Pike charged against the Enemy When an Army is Drawn up for Battel the distance between the Lines must be of three hundred Paces the same as is in a Camp Of Defiles TO pass a narrow Defile the readiest way to perform it and draw up again in Order assoon as past is to make the Ranks File if to the Right the Right-hand man Files first and the rest of his Rank follow him till the Defile be past then they Rank again as they were this seems better then Files fileing because it immediately makes a Front to the Enemy If the Rank be great let it File two abreast beginning with the two middlemost Files For larger Defiles the Commander draws off as he judges the way will easily receive in order to which the Battalion is divided before it Marches Serjeants taking care of the Subdivisions The places of the Lieutenants may be according to these Figures Captains and Ensigns keeping their places FINIS LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1676. * Note after they have given Fire they must still keep their Hands up till the Word of Command be given to Return their Pistols