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A17524	The complete captain, or, an abbridgement of Cesars warres with observations upon them; together with a collection of the order of the militia of the ancients; and a particular treatise of modern war: written by the late great generall the Duke of Rohan: Englished by I.C.; Parfait capitaine. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.; Cruso, John, d. 1681.; Caesar, Julius.	1640 (1640)	STC 4338; ESTC S107127	109,532	199

sorts of offensive arms there be but three much in use namely the pistol sword and carabine The Spaniards onely have continued some few companies of lances which they keep rather for gravitie then reason for the lance doth no effect but by the violence of the carreir of the horse and besides there is but one rank which can make use of it so that their order must be to fight by single ranks which cannot resist the squadrons and if they should fight in squadrons they would rather be troublesome then serviceable And for musketiers on horseback or dragones they are also in a manner left off for that in the civil warres they ruined the Infantery every man desiring to have a nag that so he might be the fitter to rob and pillage neverthelesse some well-ordered troups of this kind in an armie are of very great service either for executions to gain bad passages to guard the quarters of horse or else on a day of battel to cause them to dismount as forlorn hopes before the squadrons of Cavalrie Now the Cavalrie must be proportioned with the Infantery which may be distinguished according to the situation of the countrey where the warre is made or else according to the enemy against whom you are to fight For if you you be in a champain full of forrage and if ye be to make warre against a great Cavalrie as that of the Turk in such a case you must fortifie your self with the greater number of horse But if the warre be in a countrey enclosed either by mountains forrests moores or hedges and ditches and that hath many fortified places for that the warre is rather reduced to sieges then to battels and field-combats in such a case you must strengthen your Infanterie And these two bodies are so necessary the one for the other as an armie cannot be held to be good nor subsist unlesse it be equally provided of both Neverthelesse if I were not induced by some extraordinary reason I would make the proportion of my army for the open countrey of a fourth part of horse to three fourth parts of Infantery as to twentie foure thousand foot eight thousand horse in an inclosed countrey of a sixth part of horse to five parts of foot as to twentie foure thousand foot foure thousand horse It remaineth to give to these two bodies such arms as were before mentioned with the most profitable proportion The Swisses have many more pikes then muskets and for this they have made themselves to be much feared in a champain countrey for in a day of battel where you come to hand the number of pikes hath much advantage of that of muskets Other nations do equally divide the pikes and muskets and because the war in these times is reduced to sieges rather then battels we desire to have a greater number of muskets then of pikes For my self which adde the targets to them my opinion should be to have the regiments of 1440 souldiers namely of 600 pikes 600 muskets and 240 targets For the Cavalrie I would proportion it after this manner I would compose the regiments of 500 horse whereof I would arm 400 with Cuirassiers arms 50 with carabines and 50 to be dragones But this is not all to provide good arms for your souldiers unlesse you oblige them to wear them it being an unsufferable shame to see their delicatenesse in these times and how they disesteem them and to cover this fault they publish that it is want of courage to go armed and that they will go in their doublets into the most dangerous places aswell as they which are armed It is not enough to go into a place to cause ones self there to be knocked on the head we should go thither to conquer and not to be beaten Besides this inconvenience groweth of it that if you use not your self to wear your arms you are so pestered with them as you cannot fight in them on the contrary if you accustome your self to them they are no more troublesome to you and you are at as much libertie in them as if you were in your doublet But the greatest mischief that cometh of it is that the ruine of military discipline followeth on it which a good Captain ought to cause to be exactly observed in every part For if he slacken it in one or in favour of some persons the consequences which follow on it by little and little will be such as they will wholly overthrow it and then he shall find himself without obedience and without respect which he shall never recover without incurring the hatred of those whom he hath too much spared it being most certain that it is easier to prevent a mischief then to help it when it is befallen CHAP. III. Of Militarie Discipline BEsides that which hath been said to incite every one to take upon him the profession of arms rather then any other we must make other observations to make a man worthy thereof which consist in three things namely in the recompense of commendable actions in the punishment of bad ones and in the continuall and exact exercise of militarie discipline for there is no profession in the world which hath more need of such helps then that of warre where for the single pay which hardly affordeth livelyhood and with which the meanest artisan would not be contented the souldier abandoneth himself to all sorts of perils and labours but none are instigated thereunto unlesse it be by emulation of honour or by licence to do evil and as the first aim is vertuous so you shall have good service of such as enter into it for that end But of the other you shall reap nothing but shame for in stead of a good and obedient army you shall find that you have no better then a troup of pillaging rogues which without order or obedience forsake you either after a good boot-haling or in any eminent danger For this reason the election of souldiers is a better way of forming an army then onely to receive voluntaries where all the vagabonds and evil livers and such as cannot live but by robbing cause themselves to be enrolled Therefore to incite such as are vertuous to well-doing and to deterre the vitious from doing evil recompenses and punishments are principally necessary The Romanes have made very profitable use of these two means and if we follow not their way we shall never have good nor well-disciplined souldiers It matters not though we use not the very same remunerations and the same punishments they did it sufficeth that they be equivalent that so we may receive the same benefit by them and these things are diversly done according to time and custome The principall is to be an exact observer of them that so the remunerations may excite brave men to worthy actions and the rigour of punishment may keep cowards from doing basely The manner of decimating the souldiers which the Romanes had is held to be cruel neverthelesse there

The Complete CAPTAIN OR An Abbridgement of CESARS warres with observations upon them Together With a collection of the order of the Militia of the Ancients and A particular Treatise of modern war Written By the late great Generall the Duke of Rohan Englished by J. C. CAMBRIDGE Printed by ROGER DANIEL Printer to the Vniversitie And are to be sold at the Angel in Popes-head-alley in London 1640. April 24. 1640. Imprimatur per Typographum Academiae Cantabrigiensis Jo. Cosin Procan To his worthy friend Captain Cruso upon his excellent translation of the Duke of Rohan's Le parfaict Capitaine CAesar whose brain contriv'd at once the fate Of his great self and of the Romane State With mightie action caus'd where-ere he stood The trembling place to sweat forth humane bloud Who tam'd rebellion so as in that sinne His own contrivance had the traitour bin How nimble-ear'd and with what piercing sight He could discern advantage and then fight Cold waves winds hunger watching labour warre Were accidents through which he oft did dare How patient for his ends How quickly he Unthought of could defeat his enemy Whose expedition as an engine hurl'd Him from one side to th' other of the world Whose way of victory begot the fame That he but went and saw and overcame Dark stratageme quick action and the all Of him built up a mighty Generall And to make wonder gaze more he could be Th' Historiographer and th' Historie As if his mightie acts to vanquish men Had been on purpose done to trie his pen. Oblivion so threw dust upon what he Most fairly wrote unto posteritie And thou brave man at arms great Roan hast tane His lively portraict out of Mars his fane And arm'd thy self by him yea shown to all Thou knew'st to write and be a Generall See with what art the Chymist deals and how Spirits from bodies he extracts so thou How smart he gives his stratagemes and where Their hidden vertue lies he makes appeare Mark with how curious hand he those doth trie And fit unto our times and so apply The Grecian tacticks Cesar brought to Rome And this brave Duke to us as from their tombe What weapons and what forms may fit again He well revives which seem'd before but vain If e'r Pythagoras were right to hold A transmigration he doth it unfold But view his own directions quick and wise He makes towns strong but strangely doth surprise He rouzeth lazie minds and seems to write Men into field and teach them how to fight Mirrour of manhood that art here though gone Then Vertues self a better tombe there 's none And Thou my Friend that freely dost discover So rich a jewel and hast brought it over Merit'st no mean applause Me thinks I see Each noble mind admire thy industrie And cherish thy rare worth since few there are That for the publick undergo such care Mount still in thy endeavours and shine bright His glorie 's great that lends to others light To the right worshipfull Sir John Hobart Knight and Baronnet Sir Thomas Woodhous Knight Baronnet Sir John Holland Baronnet Sir Hamon le Strange Knight Sir Edward Waldgrave Knight Sir Charles le Gros Knight Sir Robert Kemp Knight Deputie Lieutenants of Norfolk and Norwich And Clement Corbet Doctour of the Civil law Chancellour and Deputie Lieutenant of Norwich Right Worshipfull A Great book is a great mischief as it is in the Greek Adagie and therefore it was well said of Seneca Magni artificis est clausisse multum in exiguo Such an Artist the late great Generall the Duke of Rohan hath here proved himself in his excellent abbridgement of Cesars warres with his own observations upon them and his Militia of the Greeks and Romanes His work is like fruits which are dried in the sunne contracted to a small bulk but full of substance and virtue The transcendency thereof moved me to communicate it to our Nation in these times of action May it please you to afford it your Patronage and to accept it as a testimonie of all due respects from Your most humble Servant J. C. The complete Captain OR An Abbridgement of Cesars warres The I. Book CESAR having the government of the Gauls for the space of five years the first war that he made there was against the Suisses Helvetii caused by the ambition of Orgetorix who was a rich noble and powerfull man in that Nation He perswaded this people which were hardy by nature and exercised in arms by the warres which they had with their neighbours to inlarge themselves into Gallia a countrey more spacious and better then their own For this effect resolution being taken they take three years space to make their preparations In which time they furnish themselves with waggons and horses of burden taking order that all their countrey be imployed to all sorts of grain to make their provision of victuall and name Orgetorix to be their Generall and Conductour who for his part imployeth that time in fortifying himself by the assistance of his neighbours Sequanus perswadeth Casticus a Burgundian to make himself Lord of his countrey as his father had been Aeduus draweth in Dumnorix of Autun brother to Divitiacus to the same designe the most powerfull man of his citie and giveth him his daughter in marriage But the Suisses being ever jealous of their libertie and perceiving that Orgetorix aspired to bring them under subjection seised on his person and during the contestations about his triall having a great train of kinsfolks and partakers he died in prison This abated not the designe of this people which on their appointed day having taken as much victuall as would serve them for three moneths burnt the rest of their corn and all their cities to the number of twelve and 4. hundred villages and having perswaded those of Basil Rauraci Tulingi Latobrici Distalingen and Clacky their neighbours to do the like they depart and march towards Geneva there to passe the Rhosne Cesar having intelligence thereof goeth speedily to Geneva assembleth what forces he can causeth a bridge to be broken down which lay upon the Rhosne Rhodanus and maketh a ditch and rampire of eighteen miles long from the lake of Geneva to the hill Jura to hinder their passage over the Rhosne Which the Suisses understanding send deputies to him to desire passage he holdeth them in suspense and promiseth them answer at another time mean while he prepareth to hinder them and they after refusall and having attempted the passage in vain take their way through Burgundie which Dumnorix procured for them Which Cesar observing leaveth Labienus at Geneva goeth and levieth new Legions followeth them and lighting upon them at the passage of the Saosne defeateth the fourth part of their troups Arrar which were not as yet passed over After that he maketh a bridge over the river and pursueth them but his victuall beginning to fall short and perceiving that Dumnorix hindered

conquest A Sovereigne Prince is more capable to make great and ready conquests then a common-wealth for that finding himself secret in his counsel courageous in his resolution ready in his execution and not fearing to be contradicted by any he maketh more conquests in ten years of his life then a common-wealth which is lesse secret which is long in resolving which bridleth the authoritie of her Captains and which every houre contradicteth their actions shall be able to do in a hundred yeares So also a common-wealth which goeth alwayes upon her own maximes which is not subject to the want of one person and whose government receiveth no alteration by the death of any of them conserveth much better and for a longer time that which she hath conquered then a Prince which ofttimes and almost alwayes hath a successour as much a heartlesse dullard as himself was vertuous Neverthelesse I will here establish as well for the one as for the other the true maximes for the well assuring of a conquest which consist in two things namely to take away the desire of revolting from those whom you have conquered and the means of being able to do it For the first it is a thing very certain that if you conquer a free people you shall not take away at least during the life of those which have lived so their desire to recover their liberty If they be subjects to a Prince and a State and that they have onely changed their master they will rather desire to remain under the authoritie of him which shall use them the most courteously Therefore you must alwayes begin by a fair way and to establish a condition for them which you have conquered which may be sure both for their life and for their goods For if even your own subjects find not this assurance it is to be feared they will revolt how much more they which are newly conquered it being a law of nature imprinted in every creature that the meanest and least animal taketh care for its own conservation to which man endued with reason addeth the conservation of his honour and his welfare which he ofttimes preferreth before his own life Therefore a Prince must govern according to exact justice uphold the oppressed in his due right abstein from all violence himself aswel concerning the honour of their wives as for their goods for without this it is impossible to make a conquered people tractable You must also so much as may be maintein them in the form of their government exclude none of them out of the possibility of atteining to those offices dignities and honours which they may possesse without prejudice to your safetie And if it be a Prince which maketh this conquest the means to assure himself well therein is there to establish his residence the most that may be for that his presence doth hinder many disorders the splendour of his court imprinteth a certain veneration into the minds of the people and it bringeth gain to the artificers and citizens where it is kept If it be a common-wealth which cannot change the seat of their government it is therefore necessary that such as they should send thither to govern live there with splendour For the people is sometimes more taken with appearance then realitie These are the means which do insensibly insinuate obedience into a newly conquered people but because this is not sufficient and that ofttimes the facilitie of revolting impunely causeth men to have a desire to it it is necessary for you to precaution your self by requisite assurances which consist in having their arms and fortresses in your own hands I mean not that all the people shall be wholy disarmed for if it be possible it must not come to that but to assure your self of great communalties by good fortresses to have arcenals in severall parts and not all in one place and not to leave any town or castle except your fortresses of garrison so strong as to be able to endure 100 cannon-bullets There is a last means whereof the ancients made a profitable use and is now wholly left which I do marvellously approve of which is to establish colonies and to transport the people from one countrey to another For besides that it is a great bridle to keep a conquered countrey in aw you recompense by this means the nearer part of those souldiers which have done you good service And I find not the reason to be sufficient which some alledge that it is cruelty to make this permutation and that it is against charity but to the contrary I find indeed those remedies to be cruel which are commonly used to keep the people so under as they have nothing but their life and cannot hope for any honour within their own countrey For my self I professe freely that I had rather be driven out of my countrey into another where I should have a hope for my self and mine to be able to attein to something more then now I am then to remain in mine own countrey to be deprived of that hope finding nothing to be so hard as to take away hope from a man which is that which in this world and for the goods of this world maketh him undertake all things and which for the goods of the other world furnisheth him with constancy to suffer all things Moreover there is nothing which distinguisheth a man so much from a beast nor yet a regenerate man from a sensuall as hope Which maketh me conclude that you should never take from a man the hope of being able to obtein a better condition then that which he possesseth that so he be not cast into despair CHAP. XXI How you must proceed to relieve your allie and confederate ONe of the most honourable actions which a Prince doth and which bringeth him most reputation is to succour his allies in their necessities but it is a thing which for the most part is very difficult When you will make war you choose your advantages and you take your time and your measures according to that which you can and will do it is not so in the succouring of your allie which must be assisted with such difficulties and discommodities as you meet with If his countrey be joyned to yours and that nothing hindreth you from assisting him with all your forces united you cannot excuse the not doing of it unlesse it be that you fear his enemy and would not offend him which is an unmanly and no judicious reason For by this excuse you escape not the danger which your neighbours losse will draw upon you It being much better for you to resist joyntly then suffer your selves to be undone one after another But if it be an allie separated from you by other Princes and States which ofttimes so hapneth and that you meet with great difficulties to get into his countrey you must then well consider after what manner you should succour him for if the States which are between