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1 2| useless, except in the front rank where there is ample space
2 3| employed of receiving one rank into the other; for without
3 3| method, one cannot help the rank in front, or defend them,
4 3| did not retire from one rank into the other, as the Romans,
5 3| had placed fifty men per rank, when their front came against
6 3| lances of those in the sixth rank reached past the front rank.
7 3| rank reached past the front rank. When they fought, therefore,
8 3| therefore, if any of the first rank fell, either killed or wounded,
9 3| behind him in the second rank immediately entered into
10 3| behind him in the third rank immediately entered into
11 3| the place in the second rank which had become vacant,
12 3| vacant except in the last rank, which became depleted because
13 3| injuries which the first rank suffered, depleted the last,
14 3| the last, and the first rank always remained complete;
15 3| no way in which the first rank, if it should retire, to
16 3| next one, and between one rank and the next, not only serve
17 3| pike remain to the first rank. The second rank, in addition
18 3| the first rank. The second rank, in addition to what the
19 3| that exists between one rank and the next; so that not
20 3| arm lengths to the third rank, three to the fourth, and
21 3| Triari, who were the third rank of the Roman Legions, were
22 3| told you that the second rank had to enter among the first,
23 5| should kneel, and the second rank of the company should place
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