[ Page 106]
Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
[ Page 106]
|
106 History of the Kingdom into four battalions each of a thousand men for the vanguard, a hundred paces apart from each other. At another hundred paces on each side we put the light horses: Behind these, at some one hundred & fifty or two hundred paces away, another four thousand men are placed for the battle, who look in a chessboard pattern at the empty spaces of those of the vanguard on both flanks: half of the gendarmerie right behind the light horses. In the rear guard, the other four thousand foot soldiers are placed, the battalions separated at two hundred & fifty paces from each other, in order to avoid confusion of those of the vanguard & battle, if by chance they were pushed back. For in this way no disorder can arise, especially since so much space is left between these said battalions of the rear guard, as is sufficient to receive them all, if they were broken. And the reason why they arrange their army in such order, it is very necessary to declare, having been told to me by one of their most experienced Captains being with the Ambassador of the King who was at that time at Bandan. The fact that they first place their cavalry on the flanks, not in front, nor between the battalions, is to prevent the confusion which can arise, |