Obseruations vpon the fiue first bookes of Cæsars commentaries setting fourth the practise of the art military in the time of the Roman Empire : wherein are handled all the chiefest point of their discipline, with the true reason of euery part, together with such instructions as may be drawn from their proceedings, for the better direction of our moderne warres / by Clement Edmunds.
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Obseruations vpon the fiue first bookes of Cæsars commentaries setting fourth the practise of the art military in the time of the Roman Empire : wherein are handled all the chiefest point of their discipline, with the true reason of euery part, together with such instructions as may be drawn from their proceedings, for the better direction of our moderne warres / by Clement Edmunds.
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Edmondes, Clement, Sir, 1566 or 7-1622.
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At London :: Printed by Peter Short, dwelling on Bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre,
1600.
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Caesar, Julius. -- De bello Gallico. -- English. -- Abridgments.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Early works to 1800.
Gaul -- History -- Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C. -- Early works to 1800.
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"Obseruations vpon the fiue first bookes of Cæsars commentaries setting fourth the practise of the art military in the time of the Roman Empire : wherein are handled all the chiefest point of their discipline, with the true reason of euery part, together with such instructions as may be drawn from their proceedings, for the better direction of our moderne warres / by Clement Edmunds." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a21131.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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THE SECOND OBSERVATION.
I Neede not stand vpon this order which the Galles heere tooke, con∣cerning
pillage, that no soldior should forsake his station, or disranke
himselfe in hope of spoile; which is a thing that from the very infan∣cie
of warres hath often changed the fortune of the day, and solde
the honor of a publike victorie, for priuate lucre and petty pilfering. Amongst
other examples,* 1.1 let that which Guichardine reporteth of the battell of Taro,
suffice to warne a well directed armie, as well by the good which Charles
the eighth of that name, King of France, receiued at that time, as by the
losse which the Italians felt by that disorder, not to seeke after pillage vntil the
victory be obtained.