Machiavelli, Volume I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 456 pages of information about Machiavelli, Volume I.

Machiavelli, Volume I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 456 pages of information about Machiavelli, Volume I.
and by the open place that thei shal leave, all the carriages and unarmed menne must go out, and place themselves on the backe of the battaile.  Then the rome in the middeste beyng voided, and every man gone to his place:  the five battailes, whiche I placed behinde on the armie, must make forward in the voide place, that is betwene the one and the other flanck, and marche towardes the battailes, that stand in the hedde, and three of theim, muste stande within thirtie yardes of those, with equall distances, betwene the one and the other, and the other twoo shal remain behinde, distaunte other thirtie yardes:  the whiche facion maie bee ordained in a sodaine, and commeth almoste to bee like, unto the firste disposicion, whiche of tharmy afore we shewed.  And though it come straighter in the fronte, it commeth grosser in the flanckes, whiche giveth it no lesse strength:  but bicause the five battailes, that be in the taile, have the Pikes on the hinder parte, for the occasion that before we have declared, it is necessarie to make theim to come on the parte afore, mindyng to have theim to make a backe to the front of tharmie:  and therfore it behoveth either to make them to tourne battaile after battaile, as a whole body, or to make them quickly to enter betwen thorders of targettes, and conduct them afore, the whiche waie is more spedy, and of lesse disorder, then to make them to turn al together:  and so thou oughtest to doe of all those, whiche remain behind in every condicion of assault, as I shal shewe you.  If it appere that thenemie come on the part behinde, the first thyng that ought to bee dooen, is to cause that every man tourne his face where his backe stode, and straight waie tharmie cometh to have made of taile, hed, and of hed taile:  then al those waies ought to be kept, in orderyng thesame fronte, as I tolde afore.  If the enemie come to incounter the right flancke, the face of thy armie ought to bee made to tourne towardes thesame side:  after, make all those thynges in fortificacion of thesame hedde, whiche above is saied, so that the horsemen, the Veliti, and the artillerie, maie be in places conformable to the hed thereof:  onely you have this difference, that in variyng the hed of those, which are transposed, some have to go more, and some lesse.  In deede makyng hedde of the right flancke, the Veliti ought to enter in the spaces, that bee betwene the horne of the armie, and those horse, whiche were nerest to the lefte flancke, in whose place ought to enter, the twoo Ansignes of the extraordinarie Pikes, placed in the middest:  But firste the carriages and the unarmed, shall goe out by the open place, avoidyng the rome in the middest, and retiryng themselves behinde the lefte flancke, whiche shall come to bee then the taile of the armie:  the other Veliti that were placed in the taile, accordyng to the principall orderyng of the armie, in this case, shall not move:  Bicause the same place should not remaine open, whiche of taile shall come to be
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