Castrametation, or the Measurement of a Camp

CAMP MEASUREMENT.

...or have their exit. For this, the Captain has a square as wide as his company, 24 feet, and 40 feet long, with a street between him and the Soldiers 20 feet wide: Behind these soldiers is a square for the Sutlers'|Provisioners who followed the army to sell food and drink to the soldiers huts, 24 feet wide and 20 long, it being understood that the back half thereof is empty space serving for the cooking pits original: "kooc-putten" of the Sutlers of those huts, and also of the Soldiers of that company who might desire to cook for themselves; for they are not permitted to do such by their huts because of the danger of fire. Furthermore, there is a street between these huts and the Soldiers 20 feet wide, in which the Sutlers' huts have their doors or exits: And a company is in all 300 feet long and 24 wide, for which the adjacent figure serves as further explanation.

Small scale of 300 feet, serving for this and the following eight figures.

A vertical technical diagram shows the ground plan of a military unit's company quarters within a camp. To the left is a vertical scale marked 100, 200, and 300. The layout consists of several rectangular blocks for the Captain's quarters (labeled 24 and 40), the troops, and the sutlers (soetelaers). Streets of 20 feet are indicated between sections. Small circular marks within the blocks likely represent cooking pits (kooc-putten). Additional dimensions at the bottom are marked as 20, 10, and 10.

This was for a company original: "vendel" of 100 men or thereabouts, though it should be remembered that for larger companies the number of rows is increased: such as for 150 men or thereabouts, three rows; for 200 men or thereabouts, four rows, and so forth.

SECTION 3.

On the form of the lodgings of a regiment of infantry.

Assuming that a regiment|A larger tactical body composed of multiple companies, commanded by a Colonel has 10 companies, each of 100 men, the Colonel is lodged in the middle between the Captains—five on each side—each company being of the same form as stated in Section 2, and between every two companies a street 8 feet wide, in which the huts stand back-to-back toward each other, serving for the Soldiers' own convenience: the front side of the Colonel's plot measures 64 feet, and backward as much as he needs: the remainder is partly for the huts of the Preacher, Scribe, Barber-Surgeons, and others who are not soldiers, and the rest for the wagons and carts of the Sutlers of that same Colonel's command. This empty space in the middle of the regiment is also considered suitable against fire, to halt the flames (if such a misfortune occurs) there, in order to save the other half. The Sutlers' huts are thus arranged behind the regiments for those who wish to come there, without being forced to lodge at the market, for the reason that some Soldiers buy their provisions from the Sutlers and go to eat there daily, or fetch their food on credit original: "op de kerf" - literally "on the notch," referring to the use of wooden tally sticks to record debts; also because there are Soldiers of the regiment whose wives, children, or someone of theirs follow the Army with sutlery, and wish to lodge with the regiment of their Husbands or Fathers, so that both the one and the other are accommodated thereby, better than if they were far from each other. There are also Peddlers, Sword-furbishers, Saddlers, Spur-makers, Smiths, Tailors, Shoemakers, Bakers, Butchers, and other Craftsmen, of whom some follow certain regiments and wish to lodge with them, while others prefer the market, which is left free to each; the more so because in the Cities, for the convenience...