Castrametation, or the Measurement of a Camp

CAMP MEASUREMENT.

...the convenience of the townspeople works, where everyone lives either on the market or in such streets as they wish. However, it should be remembered that once the row of Sutlers'|Provisions sellers who followed the army huts behind a regiment is full—which amounts to 32 feet behind each company|vendel—no more may be added, as will be discussed in more detail, among other things, in Section 6 of the 3rd Chapter.

A schematic diagram illustrates the layout of a military camp for a regiment of ten companies (vendels). It shows rows of rectangular plots for huts, with a wider central area for the Colonel. Numerical dimensions are provided: 24, 8, and 68 across the top; 40, 20, 200, 20, 10, and 10 vertically on the right; and a total width of 388 at the bottom.

This layout was for a regiment of 10 companies, but it should be noted that according to a greater or lesser number of companies, the regiment is widened or narrowed. The Colonel always remains in the middle, except when the companies are an odd number; for then there will be one more on one side than on the other.

Note also that it often happens, when one wishes to lodge the Cavalry|Ruyterije, the wagons, and the whole Army together, that the infantry regiments (following the previous order) are not wide enough to properly occupy all the alarm posts original: "alarmplaetsen"; these were designated assembly areas for defense during a surprise attack and cover the remaining ground. In such a case, one may set the length of the rows of huts at 100 feet—which above was 200 feet—giving each company four rows of huts instead of two, but keeping all the rest as before; for by this means, the regiments become almost twice as wide.

4 SECTION.

For a troop|vaen; literally 'standard' or 'flag,' referring to a cavalry unit of about 100 men of 100 Cavalrymen, two rows of huts are ordered. To each row, a space is given 200 feet long and 10 feet wide. Between these huts come two rows of horses, the space for which is 10 feet wide and, like the huts, 200 feet long, such that with 50 horses standing on each side, there are 4 feet of width for each horse. And each horse stands with its head toward the hut of its rider, leaving