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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07035	The art of fortification, or architecture militaire as vvell offensiue as defensiue, compiled & set forth, by Samuell Marolois revievved, augmented and corrected by Albert Girard mathematician: & translated out of French into English by Henry Hexam; Opera mathematica. Part 3.	Marolois, Samuel.; Girard, Albert, 1595-1632.; Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1631 (1631)	STC 17451; ESTC S101439	115,154	146

THE ART OF FORTIFICATION OR ARCHITECTVRE MILITAIRE asvvell Offensiue as Defensiue compiled set forth By SAMVELL MAROLOIS Revievved Augmented and Corrected by ALBERT GIRARD Mathematician Translated out of French into English by HENRY HEXAM PRINTED At Amsterdam for M. IOHN IOHNSON Anno 1638. TO The right honorable truely noble Sr. HENRY VANE KNIGHT MASTER CONTROVLER OF THE KINGS HOVSEHOLD one of his Majesties most honorable privie Councellours of State WHen your honor was last here in the Netherlands Lord Ambassadour extraordinarie for his Matie of great Brittan●e with the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces It pleased your honor to employ your servant in collecting and abbreviating some militarie Abstracts Since which time in regard of my longe service I haue gained more experience and studied my profession some what better To this end for the good of my Countrie and Nation for every man by a naturall inclination ought to add some thing therevnto I haue of late vndertaken and written a treatise intituled The Principles of the Art Militaire practised in the vvarres of the Vnited Netherlands represented by figure the vvord of Commaund an demonstration disgesting the same into three parts whereof the first showes the dutie and office of a Captaine his inferiour officers the true forme observed amongst vs in the exercising of a Companie the Ordering of a Regiment and our lawes and articles of Marshall discipline The second part treats of the severall duties of the officers of the field and the diverse formes of ranging horse and foote in battle-ray showne by Prince Maurice of famous memorie his brother his highnesse the Prince of Orange our Generall that now is at sundry times and in diverse places The third part handles the place office of the Master or Generall of the Ordinance and all the officers vnder his traine and Commaund together with the Ordinance Munition Engines Instruments Materials and all necessarie preparations and Equipage belonging to an Armie other officers depending on the warre But yet me thinkes these three parts are defectiue and incompleate vnlesse a fourth be added therevnto which is the excellent art of Fortification To this effect I haue translated into English out of French the workes of two famous Mathematicians of our moderne times namely Mr. Samuell Marolois and Mr. Albert Girard who haue written at large vpon this subject As for exemple what valour and this art haue done witnesse the famous siege of Ostend for by the meanes hereof never was tovvne so brauely disputed never Fortresse in the memorie of man so couragiously defended having to doe with so braue an Ennemy who was fainte during the time of three yeeres three months and odd daies Siege to gett this towne as it were by ynchmeale what should I say by ynchmeale when they were driven to such nonpluses that they could not gett a strawes breadth of vs but held vp many daies and weekes finding such a resistance their approches before they could advance them any further yea which is more when they had approched sapt and mined into the very bowels of some Bulvvarkes blowing them vp with the violence of pouder steeple-high into the aire each Ennemy then strived at push of the pike who should become master of that falne Earth to turne it vp one against an other And at last being master of the deformed karkeis of a torne Bulwarke or two found presently a new retrenchment or cutting of cast vp before them being then forced to sapp forward againe and make new workes and mines which lasted so longe and was so well disputed till they gott the halfe of the towne before they had the whole This men valour fortification by the help of Almighty God can doe Againe this was one of Prince Maurice of blessed memorie his master peeces for by this art he was so warie and carefull of the Liues of his men that he choose rather to spend the States a hundred pound in casting vp a trench a Sap and a vvorke rather then to hasard loose the life of a man so good a Menagier was he for the preserving of his men This Art then being of such singular vse for the makeing of all manner of Fortresses and vvorkes both Regular and irregular even from a quadrangle which is a fortresse with foure points or Bulwarkes to a Dodecon which is a towne or a fortresse with twelue Bastions for the preservation of men in a Warre defensiue comes in most humble wise to craue your honours gracious patronage that vnder your favour and protection it may come to the view of the world an maye be helpfull to such as are desirous and ingenious to studie this noble art which if it be acceptable vnto your honor then I shall think my time well spent and acknowledg my selfe much bound vnto your honor and shal be obliged not onely to pray vnto the Almightie to preserue yow and yours in health but also to crowne you hereafter with everlasting felicity resting Iour honors humble and devoted servant HENRY HEXHAM THE FIRST PART OF REGVLAR FORTIFICATION DEMONSTRATED BY THE DECEASED SAMVEL MAROLOIS And Reviewed corrected augmented BY ALBERT GIRARD SANMIELOIS GOd having found good to create Man did with all prepare his affection for societie that by this meanes he might the longer preserue him and so make him become more stronge able According to which to the same end there were first built howses and lodgings to keepe men from the injurie of the aire as windes stormes raine excessiue heate and colde as the situation of their dwellings and the commodiousnesse of those places did afford And as by divine blessing and their owne industrie they attayned unto many Earthly riches as famillies cattell and other goods so by the instinct of nature they sought alwaies to strengthen defend themselues with the best fortifications they could that thereby they might not onely preserue their bodies against the violence of their Adversaires but also their goods kindred and Associates To this end as we may obserue as well in ancient histories as also at this day in some East and West Indian Nations they droue in piles of timber and made Empalements closse one to an other that enclossing themselues so narrowly together they might be the better able to defend and resist the furie of their Ennemies But in processe of time the defects of such enclossure being well marked they began afterwards to make their Fortifications of a more solid firme and durable matter as stone brick earth and such like And though experience taught them that these their Empalements of wood were not able to ●esist fyre diuerse other accidents which might befall them yet it is certaine they used these and the like fortifications till they found the harme conveniencie which they receiued by them But necessitie the Inventrix of Arts found that walls built with stones and bricks were better These were in use and traine till such