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I wish that some of you gentlemen rifle- 

 men, who can well afford it, would have a 

 few rifles made according as I h^ve di- 

 rected ; and then fasten up a coarse piece 

 of canvas, six feet high and twelve j^ards 

 long. Place then twelve of your best shots 

 facing the canvas, at one hundred and fifty 

 yards, firing three balls every shot ; then in- 

 spect the cloth, and judge by it, provided 

 j^ou had been placed against a solid batta- 

 lion of the enemy, what havock you must 

 have made amongst them. 

 %\Tiatdestruc- J j^y\\\ relate to you a real fact, which 



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aren'emy's" took placc in thc scvcu years* war, the very 

 beginning of it, near to Minden ; that Min- 

 den which lies between Gottingen and 

 Hesse Cassel, not the Minden where the 

 celebrated battle was gained by the allies, 

 under Duke Ferdinand: General Oberg 

 commanded the Germans; I forget the 

 name of the French general. 



General Oberg's position was taken just 

 after ascending the hill from Minden, on 

 the road to Hesse Cassel. The Hessian and 

 Hanoverian jagers were placed in a very 

 thick wood, full of large timber trees, in the 



