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... Hythe manner , but the musketry instructor got over the difficulty by a very clever and simple system of triangulation . It will hardly be credited that the authorities at Hythe disallowed the whole of the regulation good shooting pay ...
... Hythe manner , but the musketry instructor got over the difficulty by a very clever and simple system of triangulation . It will hardly be credited that the authorities at Hythe disallowed the whole of the regulation good shooting pay ...
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... Hythe fashion , the fire was all too high , and the killed could be numbered on one's fingers . As soon as the enemy on the other side saw we had captured the fort they opened with the heavy guns of the lower fort , but a line of men is ...
... Hythe fashion , the fire was all too high , and the killed could be numbered on one's fingers . As soon as the enemy on the other side saw we had captured the fort they opened with the heavy guns of the lower fort , but a line of men is ...
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... Hythe School of Musketry - a place we not only had a great dislike to , but also contempt for . That smart corporals should be able to drill recruits , showing them exactly where to place the little finger or thumb on the rifle , and ...
... Hythe School of Musketry - a place we not only had a great dislike to , but also contempt for . That smart corporals should be able to drill recruits , showing them exactly where to place the little finger or thumb on the rifle , and ...
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... Hythe , just in time to change and go on the shingle . I lost the long- range cup , but the dance was worth more ... Hythe was that for some time it quite spoilt my game - shooting , on which I prided myself : it took me several days at ...
... Hythe , just in time to change and go on the shingle . I lost the long- range cup , but the dance was worth more ... Hythe was that for some time it quite spoilt my game - shooting , on which I prided myself : it took me several days at ...
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... Hythe did not take a hint from the German system was at the time a puzzle . We certainly are a conservative nation in all military matters except dress : perhaps the constant changes in that respect are supposed to make up for ...
... Hythe did not take a hint from the German system was at the time a puzzle . We certainly are a conservative nation in all military matters except dress : perhaps the constant changes in that respect are supposed to make up for ...
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