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1 2| hundred fifty men to each Company, of whom four hundred are
2 2| arms (carriers). In every Company, I would put in charge a
3 2| need only to be trained Company by Company. And although
4 2| to be trained Company by Company. And although the number
5 2| men ought to do in each Company: the other, what the Company
6 2| Company: the other, what the Company ought to do afterwards when
7 2| importance in the training of the Company is to know how to maintain
8 2| and on the side of this Company, and of the complete army,
9 2| fifty ordinary Veliti of the company are not mixed in with the
10 2| other files, but when the company is formed, they extend along
11 2| putting together (forming) the company is this; and because it
12 2| form, therefore, that this company ought to have is ((as I
13 2| shoulders (rear) of the company. If it is desired, now,
14 2| infantry be employed, this company is put together in this
15 2| to bring them into the company to form the head (front),
16 2| and go to the rear of the company, which becomes formed in
17 2| many countersigns in the Company: the other, always to keep
18 2| regular formation of the company. Hence, care should be used
19 2| practice is needed, is when a company wants to turn entirely,
20 2| the left. And thus this company turns with the pikemen on
21 2| pikemen are, and then the company is turned with its files
22 2| so that, in forming the company, the pikes are situated
23 2| in the formation of the company ordinarily every Century
24 2| or they are used when the company is above, and not in the
25 2| is above, and not in the company of others.~And to come to
26 2| arrange these files to form a company with two horns (wings),
27 2| And thus he will turn a company of twenty five solid files,
28 2| artillery, whenever the company has any with it, and the
29 2| bring this winged (formed) company into the form of the piazza (
30 2| methods which can be used by a company when it has to pass by suspicious
31 2| None the less, the solid company, without wings and without
32 2| be taught the place the company has to hold and what its
33 2| proper place. So that each company would have thirty six carriages,
34 3| have arranged that each company have five ranks of pikes (
35 3| what Leaders there are per company, and what arms they have,
36 3| which I placed between one company and another, who would act
37 3| the spaces of the second company behind them, and uniting
38 3| spaces that exist between one company and the next one, and between
39 3| ordinary pikemen of the first company have hidden themselves among
40 3| systems, for a close (pressed) company of six or eight thousand
41 3| arm lengths between one company and the next, and placed
42 3| extraordinary pikemen of the company there. If the enemy should
43 3| ranks, the Vanguard, the Company (main body) and the Rearguard,
44 3| the army when the first company retires into the second,
45 3| them to retire with the company. Which, if they have to
46 3| the arrangement of each company, and it is the duty of each
47 3| therefore, how to join one company with another, and how to
48 3| therefore, the banner of each company must have its number displayed
49 3| fourth the head of the first company, the fifth that of the second (
50 3| fifth that of the second (company), the sixth of the third,
51 3| and so on up to the tenth Company, which should be in the
52 3| of Constable of the first company, nor would I care if they
53 3| be promoted to the second company. Each one of these Captains,
54 3| therefore, knowing where his Company should be located, of necessity
55 3| them retire; have the first company, as if they were being pressed,
56 3| intervals of the second (company), and then both into the
57 4| strengthened one side of the company, did not attack the stronger
58 4| methods mentioned, place a company of pikemen behind his cavalry,
59 5| occupy their own space, each company occupying (a space) forty
60 5| remain to receive another company. And as there are four spaces,
61 5| flank, and march toward the company in the front, and the three
62 5| must either make them turn company by company, as a solid body,
63 5| make them turn company by company, as a solid body, or make
64 5| number needed from every company, and I would have them take
65 5| carried the flag of the company, who never was given any
66 5| widened, so that at least one company can always move in order.
67 5| and the second rank of the company should place their shields
68 6| men-at-arms, and since each company has one hundred and fifty
69 6| quarter the Constable of one company, which would come to correspond
70 6| Transverse Way, I would quarter a company of infantry on each side,
71 6| which I would quarter a company of infantry from each group.
72 6| place the Constable of the company, who would come to be adjacent
73 6| lengths wide, so that a company of infantry is able to go
74 6| of the encampment to that company which you would want to
75 7| In a battle, never use a company for some other purpose than
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