MAKING- WAR.
Sir Robert Lloyd-Lindsay, in a magazine article says:—“A small, well-trained body of 50 men, placed under cover, can easily fire 3,000 shots in a quarter of an hour (each man firing at the rate of four shots per minute), and can place every shot at 300 yards into a space no larger than an ordinarysized room. At this rate a battallion of 800 men could in half an hour pour 80,000 or 90,000 bullets into an enemy advancing against them, thus producing a shower of lead under which no troops could stand, much less advance,”
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Patea Mail, 23 February 1882, Page 3
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97MAKING- WAR. Patea Mail, 23 February 1882, Page 3
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