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  • (Whelen.) "Musketry" sheets from First Camp, Plattsburg, New York.

    Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker

  • At the late date of 1916, after legions of men had died miserably in Europe, wasted in the trenches before the machine guns and artillery of the industrial age, the United States Army continued to operate a School of Musketry at Fort Sill.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • When the verdicts and sentence came back they were, “Guilty on all counts” and “Death by Musketry,” respectively.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • When the verdicts and sentence came back they were, “Guilty on all counts” and “Death by Musketry,” respectively.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but without committing great ravages, to tell the truth.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • When I sat up again, we were two-thirds across the Indian Ocean, and I soon struck up an acquaintance with a tall thin Colonel, then in charge of Musketry Training in India, named Ian Hamilton.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • When I sat up again, we were two-thirds across the Indian Ocean, and I soon struck up an acquaintance with a tall thin Colonel, then in charge of Musketry Training in India, named Ian Hamilton.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • When I sat up again, we were two-thirds across the Indian Ocean, and I soon struck up an acquaintance with a tall thin Colonel, then in charge of Musketry Training in India, named Ian Hamilton.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Musketry still crackled in the city suburbs and every now and then a bigger gun hammered.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • Musketry meant a bad mark against the landing party that had gone up against the battery.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

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