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That it is a dangerous thing to exercise soldiers in small skirmishes. 205

Words of Livius on the conditions of a good Captain. 206

How useful it is for a Captain to know the nature of the lands. 220

Germans and French are proud and very avaricious. 210

Peace is more burdensome to those who serve than war is to the free. 211

Pope Julius, Monsignor de Foix, and other princes.

That in the error of an army, it is good to kill the tenth reference to "decimation," a military punishment where every tenth man is executed. 215