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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20992	The art of warre, or Militarie discourses of leavying, marching, encamping; and embattailing an armie. Of building, defending, and expugning forts and fortified cities. Of ordinance, petards, and fireworks. Of the severall duties of officers, and souldiers. Of the Grecian, and Romane militia, and forming of battaillons; &c. By the Lord of Praissac. Englished by I.C.; Discours militaires. English	Du Praissac, Sieur.; Cruso, John, d. 1681.	1639 (1639)	STC 7366; ESTC S122251	80,136	227

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The subject of the book The subject of this book is the Art of Warre which hath two parts Preparation and action Preparation there must be of men money instruments and victuall The action is performed in the field or in fortresses That which is performed in the field considereth the marching encamping and embattailing of the armie And that of fortresses considereth their fabrick guard expugning defence and releef The generall heads have their particular dependences being the common practices which are daily observed as the examples the figures and the chapters following do shew A table of the chapters Chap. 1 HOw a Prince is to prepare himself to make warre to raise an armie and the manner of marching pag. 1 Chap. 2 Of encamping the armie pag. 15 Chap. 3 Of embattailing the armie pag. 26 Chap. 4 Of the building of forts pag. 31 Chap. 5 Of the defence of fortresses pag. 48 Chap. 6 Of the taking of fortresses by petard or any other surprise or by treacherie pag. 50 Chap. 7 How to besiege and expugne cities pag. 61 Chap. 8 Of taking fortresses by famine pag. 82 Chap. 9 Of the defence of fortresses against the petard and other surprises and treacheries pag. 85 Chap. 10 Of the defence of fortresses against sieges pag. 91 Chap. 11 Of the defence of fortresses against famine pag. 102 Chap. 12 Of releeving places besieged pag. 103 Chap. 13 Of Artillerie the foundings mixtures an● measures of ordinance pag. 104 Chap. 14 Of the offices of militarie men pag. 12● Chap. 15 Of fireworks pag. 150 Chap. 16 Of the militia of the Grecians pag. 158 Chap. 17 Of the Roman militia pag. 185 Chap. 18 Of the forming of battaillons pag. 196 How a Prince is to prepare himself to make warre to raise an armie and the manner of marching CHAP. 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A Prince being resolved to make warre be it offensive or defensive ought to make such provision of men instruments money and victuall as he shall know to be necessary for his enterprise In making his provision of men he is to choose such as are fit for counsell for command and for souldierie For his counsels such whose age prudence experience and study renders capable of such imployments For commanders in his armies he is to choose men of authoritie respect prudence experience and good fortune Each of them having made such proof of their courage sufficiencie and good successe in their severall charges as it be apparently known to all men chiefly choosing such as are born courageous and are habituated in all the exercises of warre as to handle all sorts of armes to know all manner of militarie motions to form all sorts of battaillons to range armies in battalia to make them march encamp embattaile to erect fortifications to assault places of strength and to defend them to make the trenches and place the batteries briefly that they know all the functions of warre For souldiers whether they be Infanterie or Cavallrie they ought to be elected such as are strong stout and of fitting yeares giving them such armes as are most fitting for them and disciplining them For the politick part that they be sober and continent in their sustenance abstemious from play and women modest in their speeches apparell and all other actions Concerning the militarie part they are to be instructed in the use and exercise of the sword musket and pike and to be taught how to encamp entrench and make their huts how to keep themselves in order and to be expert in all motions requisite for the forming and ready dividing of such forms as shall be desired To this end the Captains Lieutenants and Ensignes ought to be very carefull to instruct and discipline their souldiers The militarie discipline for the foot is this The musketiers ought to be exact in the use of their musket and rest together to shoulder properly to make ready and present all after one and the same manner whether it be upon entring into the guard to passe a muster or to go to the charge To give fire either by themselves by files by ranks or in a volly The pikes to shoulder asloap and levell advance trail charge to front and rear And both pikes and muskets how to wear their swords how to keep their ranks and files to take their distances both for muster and fight To use their motions to the right left and rear To double open close and to reduce both files and ranks to countermarch and wheel A. A calliver shouldred The French continued the calliver longer then other nations B. A calliber firing C. A musketier shouldred D. A musketier firing E. A pike ordered F. Advanced G. Shouldred levell H. Sloaped I. Charged K. Trailed L. Charged at foot M. Charged to the rear A B C D E F G H I K L M Concerning the horse they ought to be instructed how to manage their horses and armes Their horses to the right and left to advance stop retreat Their armes how properly to put on and wear their defensive ones and to make good use of the offensive as how to charge and present their carbines and pistols and to finde out the unarmed parts with their swords A troop of horse being to be mustered marcheth three in rank but to be embattailed it ought to be so disposed that for every three in rank there be one in file so that a troop of 108 horse shall have 18 files and 6 ranks The distance of ranks ought to be both for the length of the horse as for the spaces between them of six a Paces here are to be understood steps and not geometricall paces of 5 foot paces and of files one pace To make one grosse of many battaillons the troops ought to be ordered into so many ranks as the flank of the battaillon shall be intended to contain horses and then to draw up the troops flank to flank The provision of instruments of warre is principally of armes and horses Of armes both offensive and defensive Of offensive as Artillerie muskets carbines pistols pikes halberts partisans half-pikes Of defensive as head-pieces casques gorgets cuirasses pouldrons vanbraces corslets taces targets c. And of draught horses in abundance for the train of the Artillerie munitions and victuall The provision of money is to be made by a gathering of it together long before hand in the most abundant measure that may be by the preserving of it diligently without imploying of it upon vain and unprofitable things and by distributing of it where it shall be found necessarie and in needfull things not to be niggardly The provision of victuall consisteth in the collection and duration of it the conservation and distribution Having made all these preparations and filled the magazines there must be choice made of some citie there to make the staple of amunition to put the train of Artillerie in equippage and there to take the muster of the armie as well of the Infanterie and Cavallrie as