Military discipline: or, The young artillery man. Wherein is discoursed and showne the postures both of musket and pike: the exactest ways, & c. together with the motions which are to be used, in the exercising of a foot -company. With divers and severall formes and figures of battell .. (1635)
Barriffe, William · London, Printed by Thomas Harper · leaf 150
motion isfrom the front to the reere: This Ma:edoman Coun-ter-march, makes femblance in the reere of fight,butprefently producethan orderly fettled front,when perhaps the enemy^with a too early purfuit,hath broken the order of their array. The way to performe this Counter-march,accor-ding to the… … j 3 Military Difciplijte, or left: and place themfclves behinde their leaders^every ranke (beginning with that next the file lea*ders) pafljng through fuccem*vcly,and taking theirplaces, untill the Cpunterrmarch be fully executed».It may be reduced as the reft, by doing the fameto the contrary…
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