Volume III: AMMUNITION AND PERFORMANCE
Chapter 24
SMALLARMS TRAINING,
TACTICAL `FIRINGS' AND RATES OF FIRE
SMALLARMS TRAINING PRIOR TO THE 1850s, 244
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Books of instruction, 245
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Subsidiary stages in training to load, aim and fire,
254
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Training in priming and loading, 256
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Training in aiming and firing, 260
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Training in the tactical delivery of fire: `the firings',
266
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Rates of fire with smoothbore longarms: summary, 282
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Rates of fire with rifles, 282
TACTICS, SMALLARMS PERFORMANCE AND HINDSIGHT, 286
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