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1 2| ranks (files), with five per file. Then continuing on either
2 2| that is, that the second file enters the first, the fourth
3 2| files and five (men) per file, they become forty files
4 2| forty files and ten per file. Then make them double another
5 2| same manner, placing one file within the other, and thus
6 2| files of twenty men per file. This makes almost a square,
7 2| twenty files, twenty men per file, five files of pikemen in
8 2| to eighty files, five per file, as we said a little while
9 2| Centurion to stop with the first file of twenty, and the second
10 2| the flanks of the stopped file so that he comes head-to-head
11 2| Centurion follows with his file, also going to the right
12 2| the flanks of the stopped file, so that he arrives at the
13 2| always remain in the same file. For instance, if one is
14 2| commanded to be in the second (file), he will afterwards always
15 2| and not only in this same file, but in the same position (
16 2| the same position (in the file); it is to be observed ((
17 2| shield the number of his file, and the number of his place
18 2| place assigned him in that file. The men, therefore, being
19 2| eighty files of five per file, placing all the pikemen
20 2| that the first and last file of every hundred of Heads
21 2| eighty files at five per file in this way: place a Centurion
22 2| of twenty infantry per file, with two wings, on each
23 2| fifteen files of twenty per file and place them between the
24 3| three files of seven per file, so that they should cover
25 3| and the third in the last file, who should fill the office
26 3| double on the right, one file entering into the other
27 5| companies in each flank in a file along its length, and distant
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