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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26617	Observations upon military & political affairs written by the Most Honourable George, Duke of Albemarle, &c. ...	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.; Heath, John, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing A864; ESTC R22335	74,580	166

follow the routed wing of the Enemies Horse should be commanded to be sub-divided into small sub-divisions when they are to follow the execution about fifteen Horsemen in a Division and the other two Divisions of Horse ought to follow after in order and keeping their men together without being sub-divided that they may make good the Retreat of the other Division of Horse which is upon the execution of those Horse of the Enemy which are fled And all the three Divisions of Horse ought to have order not to follow the Enemy above a mile and then to return to the Army again with all the expedition that they may And all your other Horse that have put the Enemies wing of Horse to flight ought to charge the Enemies Foot with as much speed as they can Having spoken of some advantages that may be taken by the Horse on the flanks of an Army in a day of Battel the which are the chiefest advantages in winning of a Battel and how they are to prepare against disadvantages that may happen I will now speak something concerning some advantages and some disadvantages that may happen in Foot Service in a day of Battel And first of the advantages that may be taken by Foot in a day of Battel the greatest advantage that can be made use of is by ordering the Musqueteers so that they may be able readily to skirmish with Foot and to be suddenly put in order upon any occasion to be sheltered by the Pikes from the Enemies Horse Each Division of Foot that fight in the Body of your Army if you intend to use this kind of Discipline which is set down in this Book ought to be in strength two hundred eighty eight men half Pikes and half Musqueteers And each Division of Foot that is to fight amongst your Horse ought to be an hundred forty four men in strength half Pikes and half Musqueteers The way how to order these Divisions of Foot in a day of Battel is shewn you in these three following Battels By this way of ordering your Foot the success of a Battel will not wholly rely upon the success of the Horse as it doth now adays as we do order our Infantry Your Foot being ordered this way as is before spoken of the success of a Battel will lie more upon the success of the Foot then upon the Horse And I account them being thus ordered as is here set down and as you shall see them in these three following Battels a more firm body to trust to for Victory than the Horse The Horse likewise by fighting of Foot among them become a firmer Body than by fighting Horse alone And such as shall make trial of this way of imbattelling their Troops shall find it very advantageous unto them in fighting a Battel and no hinderance at all but a great furtherance to the Horse-Service If your Field-pieces be of ten or twelve foot in length and having their full metal and if you meet with an Enemy whose Field-pieces are not so long you will find that you have by it a great advantage of your Enemy The advantage is this when you come with your Army and Artillery within shot of your Enemies Body of Foot your Artillery being placed in the Van-guard of your Army command your Army to stand and your Cannoneers to play with your Artillery upon the Enemy If your Enemies Field-pieces be no longer than are usually carried into the Field you will be able to shoot upon your Enemies Body of Foot a quarter of a mile before your Enemies Artillery will be able to shoot at your Body of Foot with any certainty The which will prove a great advantage to those that shall make use of it to be able to out-shoot your Enemy a quarter of a mile with your Artillery and your Enemy to recover that disadvantage must be constrained to march a quarter of a mile in Battalia with his Army before he can bring his Artillery to shoot to any purpose at your Army the which will prove if you have good Cannoneers a great dis-heartening if not a total overthrow to your Enemy All the Musqueteers that march in the Van-guard of an Army in a day of Battel ought to have two pair of Bandaliers furnished with Powder and Bullet and in case you have no Bandaliers let there be provided for each Musqueteer in the Van-guard of the Army twelve Carthrages which they ought to carry in their right-hand pockets and twelve Bullets apiece in their pockets besides and each company to carry with them for the re-furnishing their Musqueteers upon occasion a Powder-bag full of Powder Thus ought the Musqueteers in the Van-guard of an Army to be furnished All the rest of the Musqueteers ought to have their Bandaliers furnished with Powder and Bullet and each Musqueteer ought to have twelve Bullets apiece in their Pockets and each company must carry with them a Powder-bag full of Powder It is very fit likewise that you have in each Company six good Fouling-pieces of such a length as a Souldier may well be able to take aim and to shoot off at ease twelve of them being placed in a day of Battel when you bring a Division of Foot to skirmish with an Enemy on the flanks of a Division of Foot six Fowling-pieces on the one flank of a Division of Foot and six on the other flank as you shall see them placed in these three Battels following Those Souldiers that carry the Fowling-pieces ought to have command when they come within distance of Shot of that Division of the Enemy that they are to encounter with that they shoot not at any but at the Officers of that Division Likewise you ought to have on the flanks of each Division of Pikes a Souldier with Hand-Granadoes that if you bring your men to push of Pike they are to fire the Granadoes and to throw them in amongst the Enemies Pikemen which will prove a great advantage if they be boldly and well thrown Unto every Division of Foot in the Battail of your Army you ought to have two Divisions of Horse of forty in a Division ten in front and four deep on each flank of each Division of Foot in the Battail of your Army as you shall see them in these three following Battels These Divisions of Horse will be always in a readiness to charge the Enemies Foot at all times when the General shall think fit If you out-flank your Enemies Foot with your Foot either on the one flank or both the flanks let so many of your Divisions of Foot as do out-flank your Enemies Foot be drawn up on the Enemies flank and give fire on them And the Officers in Chief that Command on the flanks of the Van-guard of the Foot ought to have particular Orders for the same in case any such thing should happen and likewise they are to have a special Order for the keeping of their true distances in their advance towards an Enemy

Governour ought to have a Powder-mill in his Town and in his Magazine good store of Brimstone and one that is skilful in making of Powder and another that hath skill in making Match and he must be careful to sow at a fit time of the year a competent quantity of Hemp-seed for the making of Match If the Corn-Mills about a Town lie so that the Enemy may be able to spoil and destroy them then the Governour ought to see his Town furnished with Hand-mills He must also have a special care that his Walls be out of danger of scaling the Gates of his Town not subject to be petarred Now the best way to prevent petarring the Ports is to have Draw-bridges and Half-moons without the Ports and Port-cullices at the Ports and Turn-pikes upon the High-ways right against your Half-moons The ways for the Rounds ought to be easie and convenient the Sentinels well set the Guards very exact and the Companies that are to watch should always draw Lots for their Guards And if you suspect any Officers or Souldiers for betraying your Town as in Civil Wars Souldiers are apt to do or when they are ill paid then must you order your Guards after this manner Let your Companies that watch draw Lots for their Guards upon the Parrado place every night when they have drawn Lots for their Guards let those Companies whose Lot falleth to watch at the Ports be ordered after this manner That Company whose Lot falleth to watch at a Port let the one half of that Company watch at the Port that is appointed them by Lot and the other half at one of the Half-moons at one of the other Ports next adjoyning And all the Companies that are to watch at the Ports are to be ordered in the like manner Now here you must note that if a Governour will have his Town secured from sudden Surprises he must have always without the Ports of his Town Half-moons and Turn-pikes upon the High-ways right against the Half-moons and Port-cullices at his Ports The Gentlemen that are to watch at each Port-cullis ought to be four which must be drawn and relieved from the Main-guard These Gentlemen ought to be lock'd up in the place where the Port-cullices stand until they be relieved and the Captain of the Main-guard ought always to keep the Key All the other Companies appointed for the Watch are to watch according unto their Lots All means must be used to hinder Intelligences and Treacheries the Guards doubled always upon Market-days and Fair-days and upon any Alarm those Souldiers that have not the Guard ought to repair with their Arms speedily to their Colours and from thence the Companies are to make all the haste possible to attain to the place that is appointed them to defend upon any Alarm Thus much every Company that hath not the Watch ought to know and have order for the same before-hand If you mistrust the fidelity of the Towns-men you ought to keep a good Main-guard upon the Market-place and small Guards at all the cross-streets and then make it death for any Townsman to come out of his house upon any Alarm And if the Towns-men have any meeting together at any time without the Governours consent they ought to be imprisoned The like must be observed if they are found out of their Houses after nine of the Clock at night Likewise if you mistrust the fidelity of the Towns-men it is very necessary that there be a Work raised against the Rampier of the Town the which must face the Town and command part of it and one of the Ports In this work you ought to build places for to keep your Magazine in And at the entrance of this Work without the Port of the aforesaid Work there ought to be a Draw-bridge and a Port cullis and the Draw-bridge ought never to be down or let down but at relief time The Ports of your Town ought to be shut at Sun-setting and to be opened a little after Sun-rising Before you open your Ports in a morning you ought to send out small Parties to search all the suspicious places about the Town for Ambushes After these parties are returned finding no danger you may open your Ports and set out your Day-Guards for the security of your Cattel and then the Towns-men may drive forth their Cattel You ought likewise to have a Trumpeter to watch continually on the highest Steeple in your Town to give you notice of the approach of any Enemy by day or of any Alarm or Fire by night A Governour of a Town should be careful always to have parties abroad that he may the better secure his own Quarters and trouble the Enemy And especial care must be taken for getting constant intelligence from the next Frontier Towns of his Enemy A Governour of a Town ought to see that he have as many Out-works raised about his Town as is necessary and not more and that all his Out-works be commanded by the Rampier of the Town If the consequence of the Town requireth it and if a Governour may by raising a Sconce or two secure his Town and the relief of it the better it were very fit to do it But he must have a care that the Sconces which he raiseth for the security of the Town be raised in such convenient places that an Enemy when he cometh to Besiege the Town may not be able to plant himself between the Sconces and the Town In the fortifying of a Town if the Governour lay many Elms or Oak-Trees in the Bulwarks which he raiseth about the Town he will find it a good prevention to hinder the Enemy from mining his Bulwarks and likewise it doth strengthen his Bulwarks very much against Batteries If a Governour of a Town hath certain intelligence that he shall be besieged and findeth that he hath not Horse meat sufficient for the Horse that are in the Garrison answerable to the rest of his Provisions in the Town and in case he hath not time to provide more then the Governour ought to send away so many of his Horse as he hath not meat sufficient for to hold out with the rest of his Provisions or such as he supposeth he shall not have occasion to use unto one of the next Towns that belong to his Party Likewise if a Governour of a Town find that he hath more Out-works than his Souldiers are well able to defend it will be safest for him then to slight those Out-works that he thinketh he shall have less occasion to use A Governour must be careful of using his best endeavours and skill valiantly to defend his Out-works For next mans flesh Out-works are the best strength that belongeth to a Town And upon all occasions he must be careful to cut off the Out-works of the Town and the Town as often as the Enemy shall inforce him to it The greatest part of the Cannon of the Town ought to be planted against the Enemies approaches and the