The compleat body of the art military in three books : I. The postures of the pike and musket ..., II. Twelve exercises ..., III. The drawing up and exercising of regiments after the manner of private companies ... : also, the duties of all souldiers and officers ... / by Richard Elton ... ; to which is added a supplement comprehending these particulars, I. the duties and qualifications of all officers belonging to an army .., formerly written by Capt. Tho. Rudd ...

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The compleat body of the art military in three books : I. The postures of the pike and musket ..., II. Twelve exercises ..., III. The drawing up and exercising of regiments after the manner of private companies ... : also, the duties of all souldiers and officers ... / by Richard Elton ... ; to which is added a supplement comprehending these particulars, I. the duties and qualifications of all officers belonging to an army .., formerly written by Capt. Tho. Rudd ...
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Elton, Richard, fl. 1650.
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London :: Printed for W.L. and are to be sold by Henry Brome ... and Thomas Bassett ...,
1668.
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Soldiers -- Early works to 1800.
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"The compleat body of the art military in three books : I. The postures of the pike and musket ..., II. Twelve exercises ..., III. The drawing up and exercising of regiments after the manner of private companies ... : also, the duties of all souldiers and officers ... / by Richard Elton ... ; to which is added a supplement comprehending these particulars, I. the duties and qualifications of all officers belonging to an army .., formerly written by Capt. Tho. Rudd ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39333.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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CHAP. XXXIII. A divisional Doubling to the Front by Wheeling.

Command. WHeel off your Reer half-files, and double your Front by Division.

Direction. Half-files face to the Reer, and wheel about to the right and left, move forward, and double the Front.

Reducement. The outmost Files upon each Flank that doubled, wheel about to the right and left inward,* 1.1 and double entire the Depth of the inmost Files, face to your Leader.

Here endeth the Doublings that properly belong unto the Front according to the practise of these times, whether they be Entire or Divisional, and of their several kinds; as first, take them of themselves in the plain way, after by Coun∣ter-marches, as by the Bringers-up. Lastly, by Wheelings, and that first by En∣tire, after by Divisional. But here by the way, no Leader is tied to do all these Doublings in his Exercise at once, but to use part of them what he shall think fit. Yet, again, if he desire to be throughly knowing in all the Doublings of Front, Reer, and both Flanks, and to shew them unto the Souldiers, he may then be∣gin first to go over all the words of Command for Doublings to the Front, in∣forming his Souldiers of their several uses for service, at one time or another, and then proceed to shew the use of the several Doublings to the Flanks, and next to the Reer, which in this place I hold needless to give words of Command for the Doubling thereunto, in regard the former words of Command used to the Front, with small alteration will serve to the Reer.

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