The compleat body of the art military ... divided into three books, the first containing the postures of the pike and musket ... the second comprehending twelve exercises ... the third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of regiments ... illustrated with varietie of figures of battail ... / by Richard Elton.

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The compleat body of the art military ... divided into three books, the first containing the postures of the pike and musket ... the second comprehending twelve exercises ... the third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of regiments ... illustrated with varietie of figures of battail ... / by Richard Elton.
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Elton, Richard, fl. 1650.
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London :: Printed by Robert Leybourn,
1650.
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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"The compleat body of the art military ... divided into three books, the first containing the postures of the pike and musket ... the second comprehending twelve exercises ... the third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of regiments ... illustrated with varietie of figures of battail ... / by Richard Elton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39331.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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CHAP. XLII. Severall Wheelings with their Reducements.

Command. WHeel off your reer half-files and double your front by division.

Command. Right and left half-ranks double the depth of your battail by wheeling inward to the reer. Face to the reer.

Command. Double the length of your battail by wheeling in∣ward to front and reer. Half-files face about.

Command. Front and reer half-files double the depth of your battail by wheeling outward to the right flank. Half-files face about, and wheel to the left, front half-files wheel to the right

Command. Front and reer half-files double the length of your battail by wheeling inward to the left flank; face all to the left.

Command. Front and reer half-files double the depth of both flanks by wheeling to the right and left outward. Half-files face about.

Command. Front and reer half-files double the length of the battail by wheeling inward to the midst of ranks. Face inward.

Command. Front and reer half-files double the depth of your left flank by wheeling to the right and left outward. Half-files face about.

Command. Front and Reer half-files double the length of your battail by wheeling inward to the right flank. Face to the right, and as they then stand, right half-ranks wheel to the left, and left half-ranks wheel to the right untill the right flank meet together, they are redu∣ced.

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