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every time at 100 yards, and is capable of 

 being fired as many times in one minute as 

 a common musket. 



ReJlectio7is on the utility, universality, superi- 

 ority, and skill of this Corps, 



Such a corps, most undoubtedly, would 

 be always employed at the out-posts before 

 an army, in scouring the country before the 

 position of the army, as all light troops do. 

 Supposing, with this corps, I should fall in 

 with some corps belonging to the enemy ; 

 such corps must either be a regular regi- 

 ment of infantry, or a corps of light troops, 

 what is called in Germany or France a fry 

 corps, or a corps of riflemen. I will speak 

 first respecting meeting a corps of riflemen, 

 namely, riflemen only, I would treat them 

 the same as my friend Colonel Abercromby, 

 afterwards General Sir Robert Abercromby, 

 when in America, treated Morgan's rifle- 

 men. When Morgan'^ riflemen came 



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