A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

Another Edition of Second Part.
The Art of Embattailing An
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Sixteen-thirty-one.
Army.
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Folio.
The ed. of 1629, sent out with a new and more lengthy tp,, and the fault
in pagination on p. 38 correded. The plates of all three eds. are reproduced
from those of the French trans, of -^lian, " La Milice de Grecs et Romains,"
Paris, 16 1 5, fol.
apies. B.M.; Bod.
Contents. JEWzn is one of the most renowned and trustworthy of the
ancient military writers. His work, which is written in a clear and concise
style, was held in such estimation by Prince Maurice of Nassau that he had
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translated and introduced into the Low Countries, at that time called " the
school of war." He treats of the organisation, drilling, arming, and battle
formations of the phalanx j the position of cavalry in the field, their number,
officers, etc. ; of chariots and elephants j of various battle formations both of
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horse and foot ; of changing front, wheeling, countermarching, etc., etc.
In Chap. \. occurs the oft-quoted list of those authors who had written on
ta(Slics before him. He thus enumerates them "
: Concerning Homers
discipline militarie, the works of Stratocles and of Frontinus, a man of Consular
dignity in our time are to be read.
jEneas perfedled the Theorie thereof
at large publishing many volumes of warfare, which were abridged by Cyneas
the Thessalian. Likewise Pyrrhus the Epirote wrote Tadlicks, and his
son Alexander, and Clearchus, and Pausanias, and Euangelus, and Polybius
. . . and Eupolemus and Iphicratesj Possidonius also the Stoick set forth y
the art of warre, and many other, some in
large Tadtick volumes.
Introdu6lions, as Brion, some in
All which, I have seene and read, and yet thinke it
not much to purpose to mention particularly ; being not ignorant, that it
hath beene the manner of those writers for the most part, to apply their
style not to the ignorant, but to such as are already acquainted with the
matters they intreat of."
Eds.—Besides the collefted Gr. and Lat. eds. given in No. 3, there are
the following separate eds. : Venetiis, 1552, 4" (two in Gr.) ; Lugduni, 1613,
4° (Gr. and Lat.) j Fr. trans., Paris, 16 15, fol. j Ital. trans., Vinegia, 1551, 8".
Another English trans., by Viscount Dillon (London, 18 14, 4"), containing
also an extrafl from Polybius on the military institutions of the Romans ;
and an account of the
from a military point of view.
principal historians, ancient and modern, considered
89. Sixteen-sixteen. Bingham, John.
The Exercise of the Enghsh in the seruice of the high and
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