Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	weigh_v	weight_n	3,457	5	9.8816	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48253	The military duties of the officers of cavalry containing the way of exercising the horse according to the practice of this present time : the motions of horse, the function of the several officers, from the chief captain to the brigadeer / written originally in French by the Sieur de la Fontaine, ingineer in ordinary to the most Christain king and translated for the use of those who are desirous to be informed of the art of war as it is practised in France, by A.L.	La Fontaine, sieur de.; Lovell, Archibald.	1678 (1678)	Wing L178; ESTC R32445	50,400	157

to buy rotten and spoil'd Corn which might be destructive to the Souldiers as also in the entertaining of honest and faithful Bakers such as can resist the temptations which might be made to them by the Enemies money The Commissary ought to know the weight that a Bushel of good Wheat should weigh and by consequent all the other measures that are in use In the first place he ought to know what weight of bread so much Wheat will yield and how many men that Bread is sufficient to feed in a day and then how much Wine or Water according to the usual proportion is sufficient for the same number of men and what weight it weighs These things should be known to the Commissary General and his Clarks that they may take their measures to prepare the necessary Provisions for the Body of an Army during a Campagn How an Army made up of Horse and Foot is to be Encamped To Camp an Army aright it must be always put into two lines with a Body of reserve provided the ground be fit for it so disposing them that between the two lines there be two hundred paces distance All the Squadrons of Horse of each line are to possess thirty five paces of ground a piece and there must be as much void betwixt them that a Squadron may march by the intervals when there is occasion of fighting The Batallions of Foot who Camp commonly in Batallia six men deep have about eighty paces of ground allotted to them more or less according to the scituation of the place Between the Squadrons of Horse and Batallions of Foot of the same line there is usually left a distance of fourty or fifty paces As to the Artillery the Cannons are placed in the first line of the Foot at such places as shall be thought most advantagious The Waggons and Ammunition are to be Camped between the second line and the body of reserve on the right hand and the Provisions on the left or near the Tent of the Commissary General The Officers as well of Horse as Foot Camp at the head of their Squadrons and Batallions The place of Arms and chief Court of Guard are always at the head of the Camp where the Arms Standards and Colours are lodged A General marching in an Enemies Country and having on his march met with a Post which we suppose to be a Bridge before which there are some Courtins Bastions and demy-Bastions flanked by some heights or little Castles he is to take care to view it or to send some Ingeneers to observe if the Bridge be for resistance divided by little draw Bridges or united and entire and at the same time shall detach a small party to try if the River be fordable for in such a case the General may make some Horse pass over carrying Foot behind them and by that means attack the Bridge at both ends But if the Bridge be defended by some eminence whereon Cannon is planted a cross Battery is quickly to be raised in such a manner that the pieces may be out of aim and that those of the height cannot bear against them from which they cannot fire but out of the openings or Gun-holes which look against and defend only that which is opposite to them on the Front from the Battery they must fire constantly until the Embrasures or Gun-holes be broken down and the Enemies Cannon dismounted If the entry of the Bridge be fortified with some Bastions without spending time to attack it by Trenches some Cavalier must in haste be raised to make a breach which must be assaulted with Sword and Pistol that so the Bastion may be carried in a trice That is a vigourous way of attack the truth is the Souldiers are much exposed thereby but it is the surest way for such Posts which by a long delay might consume more men and occasion the loss of opportunity of effectuating the design if it were set upon by Trenches When an Army on a march meets with Villages heights or other like Posts which the Peasants have fortified to defend themselves and to secure their goods in The General shall observe if the Post deserve that the Army should halt or that if proceeding in his march a detachment will be sufficient to reduce these Mutineers to reason If he find it convenient to make a halt the Mareshal de Camp attended by the Ingeneers is to search for the most convenient ground for encamping the Army such as places where are Rivers Waters or Fountains The Quarter-Masters of Horse and the Brigadeers of Foot of the Army shall distribute the ground for the Camping of their Forces according to the Orders of the Quarter-Master-General The Law of War forbids Peasants upon pain of death to shut themselves up within bare Walls without Cannon to give thereby stop to a Royal Army If the General causes them to be summoned to render it is an extraordinary favour shewed them but if he resolve to force them he is to name the Officers who should begin the attack that with their men and those that are to back them they may warmly ply them with fire some furnished with short Arms others with Petards Granadoes Bosses fire Pots and some others shall carry Ladders the first by the help of Mantelets or portable defences shall approach the Gates and apply the Petard whilst others scale the Walls every one making use of Fire-works and continuing the action with vigour until the Post be gained The success is fatal to the Commanders of the Post who are rigourously to be punished for so insolent a piece of rashness In the attacking of places so many different accidents and subjects do occur wherein the General of an Army ought to employ the best of his Judgment and make use of his experience and conduct in War that as we have said in our first part and as may be with good reason averred the most part of the actions of War are no more but continual consequences of occurrences that many times depend more on chance than on the Conduct of a Commander Of the continuance of a Siege It is very difficult to find two Towns of the same scituation and force it is likewise a hard matter to make two Sieges of a like disposition and much more still to determine the continuance thereof for if there be some Towns to which the Besiegers without opening or carrying on of Trenches may the first day of the Siege approach and lodge themselves on the Counterscarps of their Fossé by means of a Rideau or some hollow way sometimes of a River or some ill fortified Suburbs There are likewise other Towns where the ground about is so well ordered that within Cannon shot of their Ramparts or at greater distance from their Out-works there is neither any ruinous place nor hollow way that may facilitate an approach to them To such kind of places there is no coming but by Trenches or by gaining ground piece and piece and