Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	division_n	foot_n	horse_n	1,961	5	9.0686	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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