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 192
e demon-ftrated with their files doubled .-whereby they^//rf/might be the n. ore perfect, but with men,itwoul4have beene needlefle: wherefore double rankes tothe contrary hand, and they will be as at the firfi. Ch A P. I5g Military Difcif Urn >ot Chap. L X11. Of bringing the Flanks into the… … His divifionall wheeling of theFlanks into the Fronts is, pro-perly , a doubling performedby whcclmg. It brings nil yourMmketticrs, fioni theflankssinto tbicjhritti So that whereasthis fodic^hdoiv,could do ex-ecution, but with 8. Miisket-tiers at once; by this Motion they may powrc oni6.flot…
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