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[English Translation] of Antangil. Book four. 143 into two, there are two Generals and battle Sergeants. These things thus ordered, each Millenier places his Regiment in battle in this way. First he places in the first rank all the Centenaries, Lieutenants, Ensigns and Appoinctez, then six dozen pikemen in the middle, and four dozen musketeers and arquebusiers on the flanks. In such a way that this second rank without the Genteniers, Lieutenants Ensigns and Appoinctez is exactly decent men, all the others are the same. The soldiers are separated from each other by ranks of six feet, and by files of three, widening or closing more or less, according to their orders. The twenty Sergeants are on the flanks and behind, in order to maintain good order, in such a way that this battalion is in a long square, having six hundred pikes in the middle, and two hundred musketeers or arquebusiers on each flank. If the battalion of their enemy is recognized as excessively thick, they are doubled, or tripled: But to put them in a full equilateral square, or equal on all sides, that is |
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