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Chapter. 59 The Command is, Wheel your Battle to the right, on the same ground. |
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5. Wheeling on the same ground quicker performed then angular wheeling and in less room
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The wheeling is by some called, a wheeling on the center; by others, a wheeling about same ground. I cannot absolutely maintain it to be either, for that it only wheels about the midst of the first rank. Neither may it rightly be termed a wheeling on the same ground. Because it loseth of the ground it formerly stood upon. This wheeling is quicker performed, then angular wheelings, and may be done in the far less ground. For the left-flank advances forward, still wheeling to the right, the right flank contrariwise facing to the left, and so falling backward. If you have an odd file, then the middle file-leader must be the center or axel-tree of the motion: if you have an even number of files, then middlemost file leader from the left. But if your wheeling be to the left, then the contrary. This by some is called the Prince of Oranges wheeling. For the reducement, wheel your battle to the left, on the same ground: and they are reduced as at first. Our next Command is to |
Wheel your Battle to the right-about, on the same ground. |
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| 7 The Reducement. | This wheeling, is also a wheeling on the center, or midst of the front; and transfers the aspect of the front-proper towards the rear, removing the battle from the ground where on it formerly stood, and placing it the ground before the former front. It is performed after the same manner at the last, only the motion is double so much as the other. In this motion to the left flank, every man is to observe his right-hand man; and must keep even after their left hand man, which become their leaders. File wise, until they have attained their ground: after which they face as before, making an even front. For the reducement, wheel your Battle to the left-about upon the same ground: and they will be reduced as the first. I will next show the divisional wheeling, and intend to give to each of them his figure: whereby they may appear the more ease to such as do not yet rightly understand them. The first shall be a wheeling-of by division: as in the next Chapter.
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