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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

Rank be more than in File A Square Battle of Men is that which hath an equal number of Men both in Rank and File though the Ground on which they stand be longer on the File than on the Rank 2. In respect of the number of the Men it is called either a Square Battel or a Double Battel or a Battel of the Grand Front which is Quadruple or a Battel of any proportion of the number in Rank to the number in File 3. So that if you are to form a Square Battle of Men extract the Square Root out of the whole number of Men and the same shall be the number of Soldiers to beset in a Rank As for Example 570 are to be formed into a Square Battel that there may be as many in Rank as in the File Take the Square Root of 576 which 〈◊〉 ●4 the Number that are to be in Rank and also in a File To order any number of Men into a Battel of the Grand Front SUppose 16900 Soldiers were to be Marshalled into a Battel of the Grand Front First divide 16900 by 4 which gives me 〈…〉 out of which I extract the Square Root which is 65 the Quadruple whereof is 260 so that I have 6 for a File and 260 in Rank Any number of Men with their distance in Rank and File how to order them into a Square Battel of Ground SUppose 2500 Soldiers were to be 〈…〉 Square Battle of Ground so that their distance in File should be 7 Feet and in Rank 3 Feet How many Men must be placed in Rank and in File Say by the Rule of Three as 7 to 3 〈◊〉 2500● to ●●71 the Square Root whereof is 32 which is the number of Men in a File and 3 over How to find the number of Men that are to be in Rank divide 2500 by 32 the Quotient is 78 which is the number of Men to be placed in a Rank and 4 over The manner how to order the Square in time of Battel THE Square being formed as aforesaid the Officers are to take care that every Front of Soldiers do their Duty and the Captains that are in the Center of each Front are to retire into the first Rank when the Musqueteers make ready and are to kneel when the Soldiers kneel and to perform the same with their Pikes as the Pikemen do Then Command Granadiers take your Posts in the Angles Here your Granadiers are to be divided in 4 equal parts and are to be placed without at the 4 Angles but if there be not room enough you may place some of them within the Angles with their Daggers in their Firelocks Those without the Angles are to be 3 deep The 2 last Ranks of which are to fire with the Musqueteers And the Front Rank are to make ready their Granadoes And as soon as the two last Ranks have fired they are to put their Daggers into their Firelocks and stand Charged and when the first Rank of Musqueteers present the first Rank of Granadiers are to deliver their Granado's which done they are to unsling their Firelocks and put in their Daggers and stand Charged as the rest 2. Face Square Here the Musqueteers on the Right and Left are to face outwards and those to the Rear to face to the right about The 3 outwardmost Files of Pikes on the right and left are to face outwards and the Rear half Files of the rest of the Pikes are to face to the Right about Those in the Angles are to face to the points of the Angles 3. Musqueteers make ready Here the Pikes are to Port very low and to continue so and not to Charge when the Musqueteers Present 4. First Rank Kneel Which they must do holding their Musquets so that the two last Ranks may fire over them 5. The two last Ranks Present Fire As soon as ever the second and third Rank have Fired and Recovered their Arms the first Rank is to stand up without any other Word of Command with their Musquets Cocked and Guarded ready to Present 6. Recover your Arms. Here the first Rank stands up with their Musquets recovered strait before them ready Cocked and Guarded and the two Ranks that have fired load 7. Front Rank Present 8. Fire Recover your Arms. At which Word of Command the Pikemen are to recover their Pikes from their Port. To your Leader March Halt Face Square c. According to this Method they may be made to March and to Fire to every Front PLATE II. The General Rule for the blunting or filling up the Angles of the Battalion EVERY Body whether lesser or greater that requires the blunting of its Angles ought to be compos'd of a Square number of Men as of 4 9 16 25 36 49 c. Therefore you must place the Men in Rank according to the Arithmetical Progression or Proportion of which the Interval Excess or Difference of the Terms must always be two Thus having placed the first Man at the Angular Point A of the Figure 1. the second Rank shall be of three Men as being a number of which the Excess Interval and Difference is Two in respect of one The third Rank shall be of five Men which is a number that exceeds three by two The fourth shall be of seven the fifth of nine and so forward still encreasing every Rank by two Men more than the Rank which is before according to the same Arithmetical Progression which has always two for the Interval and difference of the Terms Now to place these Men in due Order you must imagine that the Square little Body ACBD moves off the Ground T upon the left of the Plate II Fig 1 Battalion Q and when its last Rank AD is advanced one Pace beyond the Wing AD of the same Battalion Q it turns to the right and then the Soldier A of the Second Figure comes upon the Ground A of the first Figure The sides AD AC of the small Body meet together upon the sides that answer one another AD AC of the Angle Then you Command the Men of the little Battalion to make a Front toward the Angle and when they are drawn up according to this Arithmetical Progression you cause them to make an outward Front PLATE III. The manner of framing an Octogon Battalion with Eight Fronts SUPPOSE it a Battalion of 40 Pikemen drawn up four deep and 10 in Front You may according to the same Method draw up like an Octogon any number of Pikemen that shall observe the same Proportion of 4 to 10 between Front and Depth as 8 in Depth and 20 in Front 16 in Depth and 40 in Front or 32 in Depth and 80 in Front For in this Example I have chosen this little number of Pikemen to give the more light to the ordering and disposing of a far greater number The Words of Command 1. The two right hand Files and the two left hand Files stand fast AB IL. 2. The half File of

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