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 1 2|     light guns, they called them pikemen, halberdiers, archers, and
 2 2|        pikes, and will be called pikemen: the lightly armed are fifty
 3 2|     bearers; a thousand ordinary pikemen, and one hundred fifty ordinary
 4 2|          will call extraordinary pikemen, (and five hundred light
 5 2|    shield bearers and half among pikemen and other arms (carriers).
 6 2|       the thousand extraordinary pikemen, I would assign three Constables,
 7 2|     bearers, a thousand ordinary pikemen, a thousand extraordinary
 8 2|         a thousand extraordinary pikemen, five hundred ordinary Veliti,
 9 2|          per file, five files of pikemen in front, and fifteen files
10 2|        between the five files of pikemen and the fifteen of shield-bearers:
11 2|      Centurion are five files of pikemen, and the remaining shield-bearers:
12 2|        space that is between the pikemen and the shield-bearers of
13 2|          has to guide (lead) the pikemen ought to have a pike, and
14 2|         it is necessary that the pikemen they have on that flank
15 2|        per file, placing all the pikemen in the first twenty files,
16 2|      arranged, when you want the pikemen to be on the left flank,
17 2|      this company turns with the pikemen on the flank, with the Heads
18 2|       toward the flank where the pikemen are, and then the company
19 2|        Century has five files of pikemen in front, it now has them
20 2|         five files that have two pikemen (each) on the left side,
21 2|          placed, all between the pikemen and shield-bearers, except
22 2|        carry pikes stay with the pikemen. Behind these twenty five
23 2|       the left left side and two pikemen on the right: and after
24 2|        of Ten placed between the pikemen and the shield-bearers.
25 2|       There will be two files of pikemen and twenty Heads of Ten
26 2|     along the flanks beneath the pikemen. But, in wanting to bring
27 2|         a thousand extraordinary pikemen and four hundred extraordinary
28 2| diligence: and I would train the pikemen, group by group, at least
29 3|        have five ranks of pikes (pikemen) in front, and the remainder
30 3|       after every three ranks of pikemen place one of halberds, which,
31 3|         is not enough, gives the pikemen room (to maneuver). Placing,
32 3|       are the ordinary (regular) pikemen and Veliti, and who the
33 3|          wide. The extraordinary pikemen I would extend along the
34 3|      alongside the extraordinary pikemen, which, as you know, are
35 3|          under the extraordinary pikemen; which I would do or not
36 3|  companies and the extraordinary pikemen, according as it should
37 3|        part of the extraordinary pikemen should occupy who act as
38 3|       Roman Legions, because the pikemen are in front and all the
39 3|   protected by the extraordinary pikemen. Nor can the enemy assault
40 3|        assured, for the ranks of pikemen that gird you will defend
41 3|       You see with what fury our pikemen attack them, and how the
42 3|     discipline taught by us, our pikemen retire little by little
43 3|          under the extraordinary pikemen, and having reformed the
44 3|         In fact all the ordinary pikemen of the first company have
45 3|      twenty of the extraordinary pikemen of the company there. If
46 3|          among the extraordinary pikemen, whence it happened that
47 3|          the rear. I believe the pikemen can withstand the cavalry,
48 3|         Army, have five ranks of pikemen at the head, and seven on
49 3|       the ranks of extraordinary pikemen which are placed along the
50 3|  companies and the extraordinary pikemen, which spaces are all made
51 3|           that the five ranks of pikemen who are in front, once they
52 3|       ranks of the extraordinary pikemen, which you place on the
53 3|    command) of the extraordinary pikemen, and the two of the extraordinary
54 4|    mentioned, place a company of pikemen behind his cavalry, and
55 4|         them to give way for the pikemen, and he will always remain
56 5|      away from the extraordinary pikemen and would put one on every
57 5|    banners of the aforementioned pikemen left to me, I would place
58 5|    orderly manner (and) with the pikemen in front. The five companies
59 5|         be assembled so that the pikemen are in the rear, as we will
60 5|     arranging the companies, the pikemen ought to be placed so that
61 5|       two bands of extraordinary pikemen which I had placed in the
62 5| companies in the back have their pikemen in the rear for the reasons
63 5|       two bands of extraordinary pikemen placed in the center. But
64 6|        quarter the extraordinary pikemen and Veliti, which every
65 6|         a thousand extraordinary pikemen, and five hundred Veliti;
66 6|       two thousand extraordinary pikemen, and a thousand extraordinary
67 6|         a thousand extraordinary pikemen, and five hundred Veliti;
68 6|       two thousand extraordinary pikemen, and a thousand extraordinary
69 6|       per row, the extraordinary pikemen and Veliti of the regular
70 6|       per row, the extraordinary pikemen and Veliti of the auxiliary
71 6|    quarters of the extraordinary pikemen and Veliti. And all these