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Standing on either side of the camp are drawn three large roads, each twenty feet wide: The middle one divides the cavalry and the square in two: The other two pass through the back of the lodging of the square and the cavalry, separating the infantry from it with other streets of the same length and width, according to whether the camp is large or small. There are similarly several other streets crossing these, which are as many equal and spacious squares as are necessary for the lodging of a thousand soldiers. From there the foot soldiers, one of the said streets between the two, are campped the purveyors, victuallers and butchers with their cattle and other such kinds of people. At the four corners following these, are the horses of the Artillery with the officers and equipment: After these, we still leave an empty space all around between these last lodgings and the entrenchments and enclosures of the Camp of the width of three hundred feet as much to prevent that fire is thrown into the tents, as to be able to keep the booty, to get into battle and to fire the cannon, which is arranged in order all along the rampart. After that, we make an entrenchment all around, |
