Instructions for the Carbine and PIstol Exercises for the Cavalry 1819

ISBN-13: 9781847348609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 48 str.

Adjutant-Generals Office Horse Guards

Opis

Written only three years after Waterloo brought an end to the Napoleonic Wars, these official instructions for firearms use by the cavalry, takes military horsemanship from the era of the sword and lance into that of guns. Details carbine firing on foot; as well as the priming, loading and firing of the pistol on horseback.