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[English Translation] both in skirmish and in lined battle. Besides these exercises, they learn to shoe, medicate and muzzle horses well. This is as for the exercises. ============================== How besides the sciences and exercises which they learn from the Masters, they are given leaders who teach them to march and put themselves in battle order, and make the various changes which a battalion can make. CHAP. IX. AGAIN that all these youth have Masters of each profession. It was found good that they should be ranked as Dixeniers, Centenaries and Milleniers, who would have command over them, not in the Academy, but when they would go out armed, especially since the Pedens ordinarily teach them some servile and unseemly ways of doing things, which do not appeal to the soldier, nor to the man of courage, who wants to live and move along equally in the world. |
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