CAMP MEASUREMENT.

A diagram illustrates the layout of a single cavalry company|vaen; literally 'vane' or 'flag', a tactical unit of cavalry camp. It shows a rectangular grid with various sections. The top section is a rectangle for the Captain of Horse|Ritmeester, followed by a street. The main central area consists of many vertical lines representing stalls for horses and huts for soldiers. Various dimensions are noted: 70 feet wide at the top; vertical lengths of 40, 20, 200, 20, 10, and 10; and internal widths of 10, 5, 10, and a central street of 20.

...between the horses and the huts is a small street of 5 feet, in which the huts have their doors or exits. And between the two rows of horses is a street 20 feet wide. In front of this, the Captain of Horse|Ritmeester has a rectangle as wide as his company, 70 feet, and 40 feet long, with a street between him and the soldiers 20 feet wide. Behind these Cavalrymen|Ruyters is a rectangle for Sutlers'|Soetelaers; camp followers who sold food and supplies huts, 70 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a street between their doors and the soldiers 20 feet wide, in which the huts have their doors or exits. Thus the company is in total 300 feet long and 70 wide. Note also that this arrangement of placing the horses with their heads toward the huts, with a small street of 5 feet between them, was established with the knowledge of the Captains and the satisfaction of the Cavalrymen, so that each may conveniently keep an eye on the oats they give their horse, ensuring they are not borrowed by their neighbors. Stevin highlights a practical concern of camp life: the prevention of petty theft or "borrowing" of expensive fodder between soldiers. The adjacent figure serves to explain what has been stated.

This was intended for a company of 100 Cavalrymen or thereabouts, yet it should be remembered that for larger units, the number of rows of huts is increased as appropriate.

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A larger diagram showing the combined layout of three cavalry companies forming a regiment. It displays three identical rectangular blocks from the previous diagram placed side-by-side. Between the blocks are streets marked 20 feet wide. Each block is 70 feet wide. The total width at the bottom is marked 250 feet. Dimensions on the right side indicate vertical lengths: 40, 20, 200, 20, 10, and 20.

Some cavalry regiments are composed here of three companies, some of four; let us take as an example three companies, each containing 100 Cavalrymen. These companies, each having the form described in Section 4, are all three laid next to one another, leaving a street between every two that is 20 feet wide, in which the huts come back-to-back toward each other, serving the personal convenience of the soldiers|Krijchslieden. The Colonel's plot is the middle of the three. But because such a Colonel|the officer commanding the regiment here is always one of the Captains of Horse, who has no more baggage than the others, no larger space is given to him. This regiment is in total 300 feet long, like the previous one, and 250 wide, for which the adjacent figure serves as further explanation.

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