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[English Translation] by training them, and also to the gendarmerie, who find good horses to buy at all hours, all these horses are sold at a fair price, with benefit to the public, who make a great profit from them, there are also merchants who are required to provide young ones at a certain price, which are put in place of those that are removed. These skirmishes well fought, the battalions approach, and the arquebuziers who had been fired from their corps, return to their places, where the first rank of the two wings begins to fire at a distance of a hundred paces and no longer, in the face of the enemy, & consecutively all the others turning until the first ones have returned to their places. At once the enemy having come so close that there is no longer any way to use muskets and arquebuses, they throw them to the ground, and taking their shields in their left arm and their swords in their right hand, they charge them furiously from the flanks. If it is against the infantry, the pikemen also put their pikes down, fighting similarly with the shield and the sword. If it is against the cavalry, they close the ranks one against the other, bristling at the head of the battalion, the arquebusiers slipping behind |
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