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and have one shot more: a grape-shot 

 struck him, and killed him. 



The French were so incensed that day, 

 against the jagers, that a few of them 

 which they took, wounded, in the retreat, 

 for the German forces were beaten, they 

 buried up to theh* chins in the ground, and 

 left them to die. 



In the French armies, in those days, the 

 bugle-horn was called " la rmisique funeste \' 

 for they, in those days, had no riflemen in 

 their armies ; but they have had plenty, of 

 latter days. They have now a great num- 

 ber of tirailleurs, but not many riflemen, for 

 jagers are very scarce to be got; and to 

 make a common soldier an expert rifleman, 

 it requires much time. 



Having related how severely this French 

 regiment suffered, opposed to the German 

 jagers, 1 am of opinion, that if every jager 

 there had had a rifle, the barrel of which 

 weighed somewhat above six pounds, and 

 carried not above thirty bails to the pound, 

 that, at the distance they were from them, 

 they would have done double execution, by 

 firing three balls every shot. But say only 

 that they had put in ttoo balls; two balls, at 



