times, who attempted to imitate the ancients or to correct the moderns. For although these also have a tripartite division of their armies into vanguard, main-body, and rearguard, the only use they make of it is in giving orders when their men are in quarters; whereas on active service it rarely happens that all divisions are not equally exposed to the same onset.
And because many, to excuse their ignorance, will have it that the destructive fire of artillery forbids our employing at the present day many of the tactics used by the ancients, I will discuss this question in the following chapter, and examine whether artillery does in fact prevent us from using the valiant methods of antiquity.