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 40
or charge, under/tend the con-tinuation or preffing forward in order of battailewithout lagging behind, rather boldly fteppingforward into the place of him that fals dead,orwounded before thee. 6 By a Retreit underftand an orderly retiringbackward, either for reliefe, for advantage ofground, or for… … Chap. IV.OfRankes and Files, their places and dignities, Ow that our Souldiers arc fome-what skilfull in managing of theiramies, and no leflc capable of thefeverall beats of the Drum, it ishigh time for them to know the dif-ference between a Ranke, and a File. Wherefore ^^ lsaknow that a Ranke is a…
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