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X. Description of some Improvements in the Arms and Accoutrements of Light Cavalry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Ancram
Affiliation:
Colonel of the Mid-Lothian Regiment of Fencible Cavalry, and F. R. S. Edin. to his Excellency Marquis Cornwallis, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, &c. &c.

Extract

Sir,

Some time in the month of July 1797, I had a carabine made at Drogheda, of different dimensions, and of a different construction from that of our Light Dragoons : the mode of carrying and of using it is likewise different; and, as I have had considerable experience of this carabine since that period, I take the liberty of recommending it to the notice of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in order that a trial may be made, whether the adoption of such an arm might not be of advantage to the Light Cavalry.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1805

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