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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1851 Excerpt: ... 25. Put up your ram-sticke. 26. Fetch your musquet forward with the left hand--hold it up with the right and recover the staffe. 27. Shoulder your musquet, and carie your staffe with it. 28. March, and carie your staffe in your right hand. 29. Sinke your musquet and vnshoulder your musquet. 30. Lay your musquet on your staffe. 31. Stad to your sentinell posture. 32. Hold your musquet in your staffe, with the left hand onlie in ballance. 33. Lay downe your musquet. "Observe that all this multitude of postures in service are redacted to three--make readie, present, and give fire! "The musquetier vpon a march is alwayes to have his musquet shouldered, and the rest in his right hand, his left vpon the butte-end or head of his musquet; although I have seen many souldiers (and chieflie the lazie Dutches) to carie their musquet with their hand upon the barrell, and the mouth before, which is an vnseemlie posture, and verie vnreadie for service." In the present age, this manner of carrying arms, at the trail, is considered the most convenient for the soldiers. In an old English work of 1689, entitled, " The Perfection of Military Discipline after the newest method, as practised in England and Ireland, &c.; or, the Industrious Soldier's Golden Treasury of Knowledge in the art of making war," the words for firing are nearly the same as above. Now they are reduced to three. IV. Of Hepburn's Family, &c. Some writers have fallen into remarkable errors respecting Sir John Hepburn. Pere Daniel, in his Histoire de la Milicie Francois, states that he was esteemed by Henri IV., who died in 1610; whereas Hepburn did not leave school in Scotland till 1614. Hamilton states that he was knighted on his return from Sweden by James VI., who died in 1625, and Hepburn did not return ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235780493
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123578049X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr


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