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ground_n	face_n	hand_n	left_a	1,460	5	10.4795	5	false

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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

the two right hand Files face to the right B. 3. The half File of the two left hand Files face to the left L. 4. Files of the Wings March Plate III Fig III Fig I Fig IV Fig II There remains afterwards upon the ground of the Battalion the six Files CD GH which must be opened by half Ranks and half Files to form the Cross of the third Figure and to clear the ground of the Center by a quarter Wheeling 5. The half File of the right hand half Rank C half turn to the Right Order your Pikes C makes a Front towards the Rear and keeps his ground 6. File-leader of the right hand half Rank to the right G. March Stand. The three Files G make a Front toward A upon the right Wing and advance on that side two or three Paces beyond their Ground and so thar which was a File is become a Rank 7. They that marched stand fast G to the Right a Quarter Wheeling The three Files G make a quarter turn to the right and wheel about the Soldier R in like manner as the right Wing TY of the first and became placed as you see the 2d Figure where the three Files G are marked with the same Letters as they are in the Body of the first Figure And because that after the Wheeling they make a Front toward VR to the end they may make the Front outward on the side of VXY The next Word of Command is 8. To the left Order your Pikes 9. File-leader of the left hand half Rank stand upon your Guard H. March Take notice in the 2d Figure of the three Files H marked with little Points These you cause to march forward along the Line marked PM QF to gain the ground H marked with three great Dots in the same Figure But to gain this ground they march beyond the ground of the Battalion till the second Rank pointed PN have advanced three Paces farther than the Flank YT of the three Files G which then make a Wheeling which will happen when the Soldier P shall be upon the ground Q and that the Soldier M shall come upon the ground F at what time the Word of Command 10. To the Right March To make a Front toward the three Files G and when they shall come to be three Paces from the Rear of the three Files G then Command them 11. To the Left Rest your Pikes Then they will make a Front outward and so shall keep their ground 12. The half File of the left hand half Rank stand fast D. March Stand. The half File D advances two Paces beyond its ground 13. To the Right A Quarter Wheeling The half File D makes a quarter Wheel about the Soldier Z and because that after the Wheeling they make a Front inward toward the Center therefore to change the Front outward the Word of Command is 14. They that made the Quarter Wheeling wheel by half Conversion to the Right The Cross being thus made you bring the four Files upon the Ground 4 5 7 8 and blunt the Angles according to the foregoing General Rule PLATE IV. The manner of drawing up a Battalion in a Hexagonal Figure with a void Space in the Center and the Front of the Battalion five times exceeding the Depth WE suppose the Battalion to consist of 720 Pikemen 12 Deep and 60 in Front which is to be drawn up into an Octogonal Figure like that marked ♂ The Battalion being drawn up in the large black Draught of the first figure to bring it to the Square marked with Points in thē same figure the following Words of Command are to be made use of 1. The twelve Files of the Right wing of the twelve Files of the left wing stand fast C. D. Q. P. A. B. 2. The six Right-hand files of the Right-wing and the six left hand files of the Left-wing C. D. A. B. 3. They that have advanced double their Files inward to the Front and Reer A Takes the Ground V. B. takes the Ground T. G. takes the Ground G O and D. possesses R. 4. They that had the word of Command and they that have doubled stand fast VPT OQR 5. Middle files stand fast ME. 6. Advance you Pikes Middle files EM 7. The half file of those that advanced their Pikes wheel by half Conversion to the Right M. 8. March those that advanced their Pikes till the first Rank be advanced one Pace further than the first of the files that doubled Front and Reer M and E move and change into the Ground marked with the points M and E and from the square represented by the same points which is afterwards to be considered in the figure K. 9. The six right-hand Files and the six left-hand Files that marched wheel by half Conversion into IF HH which done Face towards the Center of the Battalion 10. They that have wheeled by half Conversion to the Right march toward the Center till the last Rank be all entred I and F come upon the Ground Y and HH upon the Ground GG where as they stand they are caused to turn to the Right and Left to advance forward that is Y fronting Y. and G. fronting G by which means YY GG possess the Ground of NNNN The Ground IY and FY becomes void Then the word of Command is to be given to the two particular Battalions OQR VPT which in regard they make a front inward you must order the Battalion OQR to make a half wheel to the Right and the Battalion VPT to make a half wheeling to the left and by that means they will make a front inwards and you shall cause them to march to the Center and the O and V shall possess the ground Y Y and R and T shall possess the ground GG Then you must cut off eight fourths of the Ranks ORVTLLLL and reduce them into Triangles to blunt the four Angles that are next them and the Battalion shall be formed after an Octogonal figure as in the figure marked ♂ where you see the same letter made use of here they answer to the same letters in the two other figures You have 532 Musquetiers at 12 in depth and 44 in front there will remain 4. The 532 Musquetiers shall serve for the Flanks of the Battalion of Pikes and to that purpose you shall take 12 files of the right Wing which will make 144 Musquetiers and as they will be equal in front to the Body of the Pikes marked E you shall march them to the head of the said Body and cause them to enter into the Center through the Intervals of the Pikes When they are advanced towards the Center divide the Ranks into half so that one half Rank shall march towards the Body of Pikes marked Q and the other half Ranks towards the Body of Pikes marked P. After this take from the left Wing of the Musquetiers 12 files more which make 144 men and cause them to advance towards the

in before Cast about to Charge you advance with your right leg turning your Musquet the barrel downwards bringing it to the left side a little backwards in your left hand keeping your right-foot-toe directly to the Front and your right heel over against the middle of the left foot ballancing your Musquet in the left hand the right hand joyned to the Muzzle which must be held directly to the front a foot from your body Handle your Charger Take it full in your hand and place it underneath your Musquet about an inch from the Muzzle Open it with your Teeth Bring it up to your mouth standing upright with your Head and not to bring your Head down to it Assoon as you have done this bring the Charger within an inch of the Muzzle underneath as before and cover the mouth of your Charger with the Ball of your Thumb Charge with Powder Put the Charge of powder into the barrel then hold your Charger again underneath your Musquet as before Draw forth your Scourer Now let fall your Charger and turn your hand your little-finger next the Muzzle and draw it at three motions being drawn dart it that is hold it level to the height of your Eye your Arm extended Shorten it to an inch Turn the great end of your Scowrer towards you and slip your hand till within an inch of the end letting it rest against your body a little below your right breast sloped all of a height Charge with Bullet Take the Bullet out of your mouth putting it into the barrel and then put the great end of the Scourer after it just into the Muzzle of the Piece and so stand till the next word of command Ram down Powder and Ball. Which is done by holding a handful of the Scowrer in your hand and your thumb on the top of it Withdraw your Scowrer Turn your hand your thumb and fore-finger towards the Muzzle and when your Scowrer is clear which is to be done at three motions dart again as before Shorten it to an handful Turn the small end of the Scowrer to your breast and slip your hand till within an handful of the end of it holding it to your body as before directed Return your Scowrer Re-place it in the Stock of your Musquet pressing it down with your thumb then alwaies remember to grasp the Muzzle of your Musquet with your right hand your thumb streight out upon the Scowrer keeping your Musquet clear from your side some half a foot the Muzzels all of a height directly to the front Poise your Musquet With your left hand bring up your Musquet before you and falling with your right leg even with your left grasp your Musquet under the Lock with your right hand and poise as before Shoulder your Musquet as formerly Poise as before Order Sink your right hand a little take hold of the Stock with your left hand upon the place where the Scowrer goes into the Stock then sinking that hand take hold of the Muzzle with your right hand and let the but-end sink to the ground close to the right foot the Lock outwards Lay down your Musquet Turn your Musquet with the Lock upwards and step forwards with your left leg and right hand and lay it upon the ground in a streight line Quit your Musquet Fall back with your left leg even to the right and stand up Handle your Musquet Step forwards with your left leg and lay your right hand near the Muzzle of your Musquet Order your Musquet Lift up the Muzzle of your Musquet and fall back with your left leg even to the right turning the Lock of your Musquet outwards by the middle of your foot Directions for the several Postures in exercising of the PIKE ADvance your Pikes With your right hand lift upright your Pike as high as you can well reach and take it with your left hand as low as you can and raise it till the but-end comes into the right hand then bring it between your breast and shoulder upright close to your thigh To the Front Lay your left hand on your Pike even with the top of your shoulder and bring the Pike streight upright before you with a quick motion drawing in your right heel to your left instep Charge Fall back with your right leg so that the heel of your left foot may be directly against the middle of your right foot Bring down your Pike extream quick with a jerk and charge Breast high your left Elbow under your Pike to support it yielding your body forwards and bending your left Knee with your feet at a convenient distance that you may stand strong always holding the But-end of your Pike in the Palm of your right hand and your left foot pointing in a strait line with your Pike To the Right four times Turn your left Toe to the right Bring up your right heel to your left Insteps and your Pike recovered straight before you with as quick a motion as in Charging Then having turned fall back with your right leg as before Charge as before To the right about Turn your left Toe to the right about bringing your right Heel as before and your Pike recovered charge before As you were You turn your left Toe to the left about bringing up your Pike recovered your left hand never to be higher than your Mouth and your right Heel as before and being turned you fall back with your Right Leg and Charge You must be sure always to bring your Pike streight up and not to swing it about for then 't will clatter against the other Pikes To the Left Four times To the Left about As you were Advance your Pikes Bringing up your Right Heel to your Left Instep and your Pike first before you you fall out with your Right Foot even with your Left and bring your Pike to your Shoulder Shoulder Lay your Left Hand on your Pike even with your Shoulder fall back with your Right Leg and put back your Right Arm as far as you well can holding your Pike half a Foot from your side then taking off your Left Hand bring up your Right Leg and lay your Pike on your Right Shoulder your Elbow close to your Body the butt-end half a Foot from the ground Charge to the Front Fall back with your Right Leg and put back your Right Arm as far as you can be sure to keep the Spear directly to the Reer and your Pike sloaped at the same heighth with the Spear as when it was Shouldered neither higher not lower Vide Charge Shoulder as you were You must now raise your Pike with both your Hands then leaving it with the Right Hand and turning the Head backwards with the Left take hold again with the Right as high as you can reach with ease bringing up your Right leg taking off your Left Hand from your Pike Shoulder as before Charge to the Right Bring your Pike up and turn the butt-end backwards by your

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