Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	hand_n	pike_n	right_a	2,571	5	9.8606	5	true

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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

countermarch is when the file-leaders face about and draw their files after them and come into the place of the bringers-up and the bringers-up come into the file-leaders places the battaillon possessing the same ground it had before A battaillon which hath performed the Persian or Cretan countermarch Countermarches by ranks are performed by the same rules and wayes as hath been shewed in those of files Wheeling is when the whole body of the battaillon turneth which is done upon the angles of the battaillon upon the right or left hand file-leader or on the middle of the front the middle file-leaders being as the center or on the center of the battaillon When the battaillon wheeleth upon the right hand file-leader it wheeleth to the right hand When it is upon the left hand file-leader it wheeleth to the left A quarter turn is called the first wheeling as when the battaillon A. comes to possesse the place B. turning upon the center E. An half turn is called the second wheeling which will be when the battaillon is come to possesse the ground C. Three quarter turn is called the third wheeling which will bring the battaillon into D. A battaillon wheeling upon the right hand file-leader The words of command are Make ready your armes Put your selves in battalia Make even your files and ranks Take your distances Advance your pikes Faces to the right As you were Faces to the left As you were Faces to the rear As you were Files to the right double As you were Double your files advancing As you were Double your files by the half ranks As you were Ranks double by ranks As you were Ranks double by the half files As you were Ranks double on both flanks As you were Countermarch c. As you were Wheel c. As you were Foure regiments made the battaile of heavie armed foot the two on the right hand were called the right wing and the two on the left the left wing The officers of these foure regiments were the Generall of foot N. The Lieutenants Generall O. The regiments are P. The front of the battaile of heavie armed foot So much concerning the heavie armed foot which differed not from the light armed concerning their order but onely in their number for the light armed had their files but of 8 deep in all the rest they were alike For they had as many files as many companies as many regiments as many officers disposed in the same order Foure regiments made the front of their battaile and two made a wing their commanders were The Lieutenant Generall Q. The Lieutenant Colonels assistants R. The regiments S. The front of the battaile of light armed foot Sometimes the light armed foot marched before the heavie armed sometimes they marched on their flanks sometimes between them and sometimes in their rear The form of battaile of the foot when the heavie armed marched before the light armed T. is the left wing V. is the right wing X. the heavie armed regiments Y. the light armed regiments The horse were sometimes placed round about the armie by squadrons sometimes on the wings and also on the rear sometimes amongst the armie on the wings of the battaillons and sometimes onely on the wings of the armie which they did most usually dividing them into two equall parts placing the one half on the right wing and the other half on the left wing The form of the armie ranged in battaile as well Infanterie as Cavalerie X. are the heavie armed foot Y. the light armed foot Z. the horse the one half on the right wing and the other half on the left As they which use flying weapons were but half the number of the pikes so the horse were but half the number of those which used flying weapons that is a fourth part of the foot The Persians and Sicilians disposed their troops of horse in square bodies as the French do now adayes but the Scythians Thracians and Macedonians put them into a triangular form or wedge and the Thessalians into a rhomb or diamond They ordered their horse in these wedges and rhombs sometimes by files and sometimes by ranks as in these figures Captain Lieutenant Ilarchos Plagiophylarchos Captain Lieutenant Corporall Ilarchos Plagiophylarchos Vragos The Grecians disposed their armies into fundrie forms which was very easie for them to do they being able to lengthen thicken open close it change the figure or turn the front as pleased them by reason their souldiers were practised in all the motions aforesaid and at the sound of the trumpet both horse and foot knew what they were to do Sometime their armie marched with an even front according to the form shewed before when their enemie was before them sometimes in two bodies when the enemie was on their flanks sometimes in foure when they were in danger on all sides sometimes in sithes checquers crescents and manches In the figure following are represented six dispositions of battaile A. Double fronted B. Foure fronts C. The sithe or open fronted wedge D. The checquer E. The crescent F The manches ♂ The horse ♒ The light armed ♊ The heavie armed A B C D E F A battaillon which had a greater depth then front they called Orthion That which had the front exceeding the depth Plagion That battaillon is called oblique which fighteth by the wings one wing serving for the vanguard When the battaile was begun to be ranged by the wings and was ended at the middle it was called Parembole When they began to range their battaile by the midst and finished it on the wings it was called Prostaxis When the heavy armed foot being first placed the light armed were placed at their front it was called Protaxis When after that the heavie armed were ranged the light armed foot were placed in their rear it was called Epitaxis When the light armed foot were ranged in the intervalls between the pikes it was called Entaxis When the light armed were placed on the wings of the whole armie they called it Hypotaxis Of the heavie armed foot called Hoplites Number of men Files Greek names of the troops The names interpreted Greek names of officers Officers names interpreted 4.   Enomotia A quartain Enomotarcha A quartainer 8.   Dimoeria An half file Dimoerites An half file-leader 16. 1. Lochia A file Lochagos A file-leader 32. 2. Dilochia Two files Dilochites A Lanspassado 64. 4. Tetrarchia A squadron Te●rarcha A Corporall 128. 8. Taxiarchia A centurie Taxiarcha A Centurion 256. 16. Syntagma A companie Syntagmatarcha A Captain 512. 32. Pentacosiarchia A double companie Pentacosiarcha A Colonels assistant 1024. 64. Chiliarchia A brigado Chiliarcha A Commander of a brigado or Sergeant major 2048. 128. Merarchia A double brigado Merarcha A Lieutenant Colonell 4096. 256. Phalangia A regiment Phalangarchos A Colonell 8192. 512. Diphalangia One wing of the regiment Diphalangarchos Lieutenant Generall of foot 16384. 1024. Tetraphalangia The battaile of the heavie armed foot Tetraphalangarchos The