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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55522	A practicall abstract of the arts of fortification and assailing containing foure different methods of fortifications with approved rules, to be set out in the feild [sic] all manner of superficies, intrenchments, and approaches by the demy circle, or with lines and stakes / written for the benefit of such as delight in the practice of these noble arts by David Papillon ...	Papillon, David, 1581-1655?	1645 (1645)	Wing P303; ESTC R7889	113,292	135

the mote and to make their Mines for to come to a generall assault their reasons are these 1. All the sallyes of a Garrison say they cannot hinder an Assailant Army to perform eight of the ten operations that shall be spoken of in the next Chapter 2. If it be never so well manned the Assailants are alwayes sive to one at least and sometime ten for one and therfore if the Defendants in these sallyes lose one man their losse is greater then if the Assailants lose five nay more then ten because they may be supplyed and recruted but the Defendants cannot but by the coming of a great Army to their releife 3. When the Defendants sally so farre from their Rampiars as to endeavour to impede the incamping of the Assailants or the making of their first approaches it is ten to one say they if they be not beaten and driven in again with losse * Forces that sally out are subject to be routed if a party of the Assailants horse goeth between them and the town Nay they may be utterly routed and their retreat into the town stopped if a good party of horse of the Assailants can get between their Rampiars and them which if they doe as it hath been oftentimes effected the strength and the courage of the Defendants is much weakned and the town in a manner halfe reduced Therefore say they it is safer and a part of greater wisdome for a Governour to keep in his men till the Assailants are near the Contre escarpe that their retreat may be secured by their musquet shot from the Contre escarpe and from the Ordnance of the Bastions and rampiars But if in case the Garrison is not strongly manned they are not say they to make any sallyes at all but only to discharge now and then some Culverings shot when some of the Assailants horse are in a body and in the reach of the shot or to discharge a Drake or two when they see some Commander of quality come neare to view their Out-works for such expences are not alwayes cast away for many great Commanders have been slain after this manner and among the rest the King of Sweden * See the Sweden souldier scaped narrowly for his horse was killed under him and the hinder part carryed a way by the shot of a Sacre as he was viewing the works of the Castle of English-State in Bavier On the other side some other Commanders maintain 1. That if a Garrison doe keep within their Rampiars and make no sallies at all that the Assailants are incouraged by it and suppose the town to be weakly manned or ill provided of Ammunition if they be not lavish of their powder in shooting dayly their Culverins to hinder with shot the assailants approaches 2. They say that if the Defendants doe not endeavour to impede by sallyes their approaches before they come to pierce their Contreescarpe that their sallies will be then to little purpose because they may be so suddenly begerted that they will not then be able to sally forth at all 3. That to gain time which is more precious in sieges then to any other occasions of warre because they hope to be relieved by some party of theirs if they can hold out but a certaine time that the defendants are by their dayly sallyes to hinder the Assailants approaches and to the utmost of their power to impede them to break through their Contre escarpe for if they can but busie them three weeks or a months time about these operations it will much dishearten the common sculdiers and discourage the Commanders of the Assailants Army Now to decide this point I leave it to the judicious Reader yet I will inform him that the Duke De * See his perfect Captain Roan Sir Authoine * See his Treaty de la charge dun Governeur Of the charge of a Governour De Ville * See his Military Architecture Petro Sardy and the greater part of the Italian and French Commanders side in their judgement with the first opinion here related and that I conceive it also to be the safest way and especially in this civill warre of ours in which our Garrisons are so ill manned and so ill provided with Ordnance and Ammunition And also because we have neither Out-works nor Contre escarpe and not so much as any lower flunks to scoure our Courtines or ditches and therefore our works being so weak and deformed as the greater part are we are to keep our men fresh and in heart for the defence of a generall assault Besides raw and unexperienced souldiers that never were in besieged Townes are mightily astonished and amazed at the first approach of a great Army before their Rampiars but when they have been wonted to look the enemy in the face their courage and resolution is increased and dare better attempt such sallyes then they could at the first coming And to prevent this Panique feare * See Plutarc in Marius life Marius a great Commander of the ancient Romans being appointed by the Senate to raise an Army to hinder the Cymbers a barbarous nation that was coming into Italy to passe the Alpelins Mounts for they were already entred in Lombardia he seeing that the greater part of his Army did consist of raw souldiers he caused them to lye in an intrenched Camp every night but when he came in sight of the enemy their multitude their grim countenance their high stature and barbarous carriage and apparell did so affright his souldiers that he could hardly make them defend the Rampiars of their Camp whereupon he gave charge to his Officers to make one Regiment after another to be day and night upon the Rampiars that they might be wonted to see without feare this barbarous and grim nation and lay purposely near a month in one and the same intrenched Camp suffering the enemies to approach sometimes to the very brim of the ditch till he saw his souldiers freed of this Panique feare and till they came and intreated him to issue forth of their Camp to give the enemy battell which he granted with much adoe reproving them for their former feare and cowardice And by this wise Policy obtained a famous victory for there remained slain in that battell fourescore thousand in the field of the Cymbers and very few of the Romans But had he set upon them at the first when his Army was amazed he had undoubtedly been routed and had cast the City of Rome into a great danger for they had then no other Army ready to oppose them To conclude this point it is most certain that the Assailants in this unnaturall warre of ours are to come to a storme the very next day that their Army hath faced a Garrison if the works of it be not regulary or have no lower flanks and their brest-work not above nine foot high and six or seven foot thick with a graft of some nine foot deep and

the very art of warre And as for the power of their Machines and ballisters it was also greater then that of our Cannons and of our musket-shot only they were as I have said before more combersome because their great Rams required two hundred men to mannage them and their ballisters four or six men and six Cannoniers with their six mates and four and twenty matroses will mannage six Cannons mounted upon a plat-forme and every one of our souldiers can mannage a musket and notwithstanding this advantage they excelled us in the art of warre CHAP. IIII. Of the true use of the Art of Fortification THis Art was invented at the first to preserve a handfull of men against the oppression and cruelty of a multitude for according to the rules of it a Garison Town is not sufficiently fortified except one hundred men within it can oppose a thousand assailants without and a thousand ten thousand that is one defendant against ten assailants but it is with this caution that the place besieged be provided with a competent number of men ordnance ammunition arms victuals and a Magazine furnished with all manner of fire-works morter-pieces engines of warre ladders and pioneers tools for if any of these necessaries be wanting this Garison will not subsist against a lesser number then is here spoken of But the Committees and Governours of our Garisons are for the greater part so carelesse of these things that few or none of our Garisons are provided of victuals for a moneth and of ammunitions arms fire-works ladders and pioneers-tools so sleightly that the first assault would deprive them of all their store nay I have been in a Garison so ill provided that in their timber-yard there was not so much good timber as to make a draw-bridge nor a ladder nor barrows to be had when occasion did require to use them but was enforced to stay while they were made Now how such a Garison could subsist against an active army if it were besieged I leave it to the judicious Reader to judge of it But our enemies are more provident witnesse the long resistance of Basing of Latham-house of Carlile of Skipton and Scarborrow-Castle and now of Chester 2. It was invented to preserve a small Army in the field against a great and powerfull army or of an army against three armies As l See Caesar Comment of the warre of Africa Caesar did preserve himself and the small army he had with him in Africa against the three powerfull armies of King Juba of Scipio and of Labienus and by his great experience in this Art did overthrow them all more by the spade and pickax then by his sword And one of the main secondary causes of the spining out of this unnaturall warre hath been that our Commanders in chief have neglected to make use of this noble Art that Caesar himself did not disdeign to practise for he often lined out the intrenchments of his own Camp and would draw upon paper the models of the Forts or Engines of warre that he would have his Enginiers to set out and have made And for the erecting of bridges over m See Caesar Commentary in the warres of Gaul Rivers and raising of high mounts and plat-forms to place high wooden Towers and his Machines of warre he excelled all his Enginiers as may be seen in his Commentaries by the strong and stately bridge that he erected over the Rhine when he past over into Germany which bridge he fortified with four Forts and rare intrenchments to secure his return into France leaving for the defence of them one of his Legions and for the raising of incredible Towers Mounts and Plat-forms and for the setting out of an intrenched Camp with a double line of Communication I will referre the Reader because I shall have occasion to speak of it in another place to the siege of Alexie in France where we may see his admirable industry and skill in this Art But we have shamefully been inforced sundry times to raise our sieges for want of an intrenched Camp as at Newark Dudley Castle Pomfret-Castle Banbury-Castle and Dennington-Castle and in all these by an handfull of men whereas if we had be●● in an intrenched Camp an Army six times as great could not have forced us to a retreat Therefore to besiege Towns or Castles of any moment without an intrenched Camp except we come to a generall and furious storme the next day after our Army hath faced the same it is properly to spin out this war wittingly and for to receive rather an affront then to obtaine a victorie or honour and reputation 3. It was invented to erect strong holds upon the Frontiers of a State or Kingdome to prevent the incursions of a forraine Enemy that might with a great Army come like a roaring floud that throwes downe all the river banks into the verie heart of a Kingdome without opposition and by meere activitie conquer the same as the Duke D'Alva conquered for the King of Spain as unjustly as suddenly the Kingdome of * See the Historie of Spain in Ferdinand and Isabels Raigne Navar under pretext to passe thorow that Kingdome to go against the French King then in Languedock And the essentiall cause of this great losse came by the negligence of the King of Navar that had not provided as he should have done with men Ammunition and victualls his Frontier Garrison Townes 4. It was invented to preserve mens habitations and the Suburbs of Corporations and not for to burne or pull them downe as many of our Enginiers have done in these dayes to their shame and guilt of conscience For if an Enginier to comply with those in authoritie or with the selfe-conceited men of a Garrison assent to pull downe Suburbs or small Hamlets that are joyned to their Corporations except they are suddenly and certainly in danger of a Siege it argues that hee is either unskilfull in his profession or voyd of all Christian charitie and naturall humanitie for by the experience of his Art or alteration of his method of Fortification he may preserve these Suburbs or Hamlets to the great advantage of the Town or of another Fortification and so dispose of his works that he may secure them and yet the Corporation shall rather need fewer men to man their works then it would require when these Hamlets are pulled downe This hath been the case of Leicester for had they not rejected a good counsell they might assuredly have been preserved by a larger Line of Communication then there was by halfe a mile for this Line might have been defended with three hundred men lesse then that they made for the which they were enforced to pull downe many honest mens houses and draw a true imputation of inhumanitie upon themselves for what greater inhumanitie could these poore soules expect from their cruell Enemies then to see their houses burned or pulled downe And by this instance you may see how