The tactiks of Ælian or art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner Englished & illustrated wth figures throughout: & notes vpon ye chapters of ye ordinary motions of ye phalange by I.B. The exercise military of ye English by ye order of that great generall Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange &c Gouernor & Generall of ye vnited Prouinces is added
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- The tactiks of Ælian or art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner Englished & illustrated wth figures throughout: & notes vpon ye chapters of ye ordinary motions of ye phalange by I.B. The exercise military of ye English by ye order of that great generall Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange &c Gouernor & Generall of ye vnited Prouinces is added
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- Aelianus.
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- At London :: [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] for Laurence Lisle & are to be sold at his shoppe at ye signe of the Tigers head in Paules Churche yard,
- [1616]
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Contents
- title page
- frontispiece
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TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY
CHARLES, ONLY SONNE OF HISMAIESTY, PRINCE OF Wales, DVKE of Cornewall, Yorke, and Albany, MAR∣QVISEof Ormont, EARLEof Chester, and Ross, LORD of Admanoch, and KNIGHT of themost noble order of the Garter. - THE TACTICKS OF AELIAN or art of embattailing an army after the Grecian manner.
- THE CONTENTS OF THE Chapters of the Booke.
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treatise
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The Authors that haue written Tacticks; of this booke, and of the profitt, of the Arte.
CHAP. I. -
The preparation of warlicke forces and division of them, and how they are armed.
CHAP. II. -
The framing of a Phalange, and definition of the art Tactick.
CHAP. III. -
What a file, or Decury is, and of how many men it consisteth.
CHAP. IIII. -
The order and parts of a file or Decury.
CHAP. V. -
Ioyning of Files.
CHAP. VI. -
Of a Phalange, the length, and depth thereof: of rankinge, and fi
nge; the division of the Phalange into winges: the place of the armed foote, of the light-armed, and of the Horse. CHAP. VII. -
Of the number of the armed foote, of the light-armed, and of the Horse.
CHAP. VIII. -
The names of the seuerall parts, and of the Commanders of the seuerall parts of the Phalange, and of the numbers vnder their commaunds.
CHAP. IX. -
The precedence, and dignitie of place in the offices of the
Phalange. CHAP. X. -
The distances to be obserued betweene Souldier and Souldier in opening and shutting the Phalange.
CHAP. XI. -
The arming of the
Phalange. CHAP. XII. -
The worth that the File-leaders, and next followers should be of
CHAP. XIII. -
Of the strength of the Macedonian Phalange, and length of the Souldiers Pikes.
CHAP. XIIII. -
The place of the light-armed, and the number of euery file.
CHAP. XV. -
The names of the bodies of the light-armed.
CHAP. XVI. -
The vse of light-armed foote.
CHAP. XVII. -
The fashion of Horse-battailes: and first of the Rhombe; the Wedge, and the Square.
CHAP. XVIII. -
Why Rhombes were first brought into vse, and the diuers formes of them.
CHAP. XIX. -
The place of Horsemen in the field, the number of an vsuall horse troupe, the degrees, and names of the officers of the Horse in generall.
CHAP. XX. -
The diligence to be vsed in choice, and exercise of the best formes of Battailes.
CHAP. XXI. -
Of Chariots; the names, and degrees of the Commanders.
CHAP. XXII. -
Of Elephants; the names, and degrees of their Commanders.
CHAP. XXIII. -
The names of military motions expressed in this booke.
CHAP. XXIV. -
Of turning, and double turning the Souldiers faces, as they stand embattailed.
CHAP. XXV. -
Of wheeling, double, and treble-wheeling of the battaile, and returning to the first posture.
CHAP. XXVI. -
Of filing, ranking, and restoring to the first posture.
CHAP. XXVII. -
Of Countermarches, and the diuers kindes thereof, with the manner how they are to be made.
CHAP. XXVIII. -
Of doubling, and the kindes thereof.
CHAP. XXIX. -
The broad-fronted Phalange, the deep Phalange, or Herse, and the vneuen-fronted Phalange.
CHAP. XXX. -
Of Parembole, Protaxis, Epitaxis, Prostaxis, Eutaxis, & Hypotaxis.
CHAP. XXXI. -
How the motions of wheeling, double, and treble wheeling of the battaile are to be made.
CHAP. XXXII. -
Of closing the battaile to the right, or left hand, or to the middest.
CHAP. XXXIII. -
The vse, and aduantage of these exercises of armes.
CHAP. XXXIV. -
Of the signes of direction, that are to be giuen to the armie, and their souerall kindes.
CHAP. XXXV. -
Of marching, and of diuers kindes of Battailes fit for a March: And first of the right-induction, of the
Coelembolos, and theTriphalange to be opposed against it,CHAP. XXXVI. -
Of Paragoge, or Deduction.
CHAP. XXXVII. -
Of the Phalange
Amphistomus. CHAP. XXXVIII. -
Of the Phalange
Antistomus. CHAP. XXXIX. -
Of the Diphalange
Antistomus▪ CHAP. XL. -
Of the Diphalange called
Peristomus. CHAP. XLI. -
Of the Diphalange called
Homoiostomos, and of the Plinthium.CHAP. XLII. -
Of the Diphalange
Heterostomus. CHAP. XLIII. -
Againe of the Battaile called a Rhombe, and of the foote-halfe moone to encounter it.
CHAP. XLIV. -
Of the Horse-battaile
Heteromekes, and of the Plagiophalange to be opposed against it.CHAP. XLV. -
Of another kinde of Rhombe for Horsemen, and of the foote-Battaile
Epicampios Emprosthia to encounter it.CHAP. XLVI. -
Of the foot-battaile called Cyrte, which is to be set against the
Epicampios. CHAP. XLVII. -
Of the Tetragonall Horse-battaile and of the wedge of foote to be opposed against it.
CHAP. XLVIII. -
Of the foot-Battaile called
Ploesium, and of the win∣ding, or saw-fronted foot-battaile to encounter it.CHAP. XLIX. -
Of Hyperphalangesis, and Hyperkerasis, and of Attenuation.
CHAP. L. -
Of conueying the Cariage of the Army.
CHAP. LI. -
Of the words of Command, and certaine obser∣uations about them.
CHAP. LII. -
Of silence to be vsed by Souldiers.
CHAP. LIII. -
The words of Command.
CHAP. LIIII.
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The Authors that haue written Tacticks; of this booke, and of the profitt, of the Arte.
- THE EXERCISE OF THE ENGLISH IN the seruice of the high and mighty Lords, the LORDS the ESTATES of the vni∣ted PROVINCES in the Low COVNTRIES.
- Faults escaped in the Booke.
- THE CONTENTS OF THE NOTES.