The Art of War - Khamkoo

thousand five hundred infantry, of whom I would make a thousand with
pikes, whom I will call extraordinary pikemen, (and five hundred light
armed, whom I will call extraordinary Veliti): and thus my infantry
would come ((according as was said a little while ago)) to be composed
half of shield bearers and half among pikemen and other arms (carriers).
In every Company, I would put in charge a Constable, four Centurions,
and forty Heads of Ten, and in addition, a Head of the ordinary Veliti
with five Heads of Ten. To the thousand extraordinary pikemen, I would
assign three Constables, ten Centurions, and a hundred Heads of Ten: to
the extraordinary Veliti, two Constables, five Centurions, and fifty
Heads of Ten. I would also assign a general Head for the whole Battalion.
I would want each Constable to have a distinct flag and (bugle)
sound.
Summarizing, therefore, a Battalion would be composed of ten Companies,
of three thousand shield bearers, a thousand ordinary pikemen, a
thousand extraordinary pikemen, five hundred ordinary Veliti, and five
hundred extraordinary Veliti: thus they would come to be six thousand
infantry, among whom there would be one thousand five hundred
Heads of Ten, and in addition fifteen Constables, with fifteen Buglers
and fifteen flags, fifty five Centurions, ten Captains of ordinary Veliti,
and one Captain for the whole Battalion with its flag and Bugler. And I
have knowingly repeated this arrangement many times, so that then,
when I show you the methods for organizing the Companies and the
armies, you will not be confounded.
I say, therefore, that any King or Republic which would want to organize
its subjects in arms, would provide them with these parties and these
arms, and create as many battalions in the country as it is capable of doing:
and if it had organized it according to the division mentioned above,
and wanting to train it according to the orders, they need only to be
trained Company by Company. And although the number of men in
each of them could not be themselves provide a reasonably (sized) army,
none the less, each man can learn to do what applies to him in particular,
for two orders are observed in the armies: the one, what men ought to do
in each Company: the other, what the Company ought to do afterwards
when it is with others in an army: and those men who carry out the first,
will easily observe the second: but without the first, one can never arrive
at the discipline of the second. Each of these Companies, therefore, can
by themselves learn to maintain (discipline in) their ranks in every kind
and place of action, and then to know how to assemble, to know its
(particular bugle) call, through which it is commanded in battle; to know
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