...put a whole battalion in danger. ' There is no neces-sity for firing very fast, a cool well levelled fire, with the pieces carefully loaded, is much more...soldiers will second them with their usual spirit. * If entrenchments and redoubts are to be defended obstinately, the firing is to begin in a regular...

...care to destroy their adversaries. There is no necessity for firing very fast : a cool, wePlevelled fire, with the pieces carefully loaded, is much more...formidable than the quickest fire in confusion. The soldiers are to take their order* from the officers of the platoon, and h? is to give them with all...

...to inform the soldiers of their platoons before the action begins, where they are to destroy them. "There is no necessity for firing very fast; a cool...formidable than the quickest fire in confusion. "The soldiers are to take their orders entirely from the officers of the platoons, and they are to give...

...to inform the soldiers of their platoons before the action begins, where they are to destroy them. " There is no necessity for firing very fast ; a cool...formidable than the quickest fire in confusion. " The soldiers are to take their orders entirely from the officers of the platoons, and they are to give...

...gall them except the fire of 1 " There is no necessity for firing very fast : a cool welllevelled fire is much more destructive and formidable than the quickest fire in confusion." Wolfe's Orders, p. 49. 1759. a few sharpshooters hidden in the scrub. Wolfe himself Sept. 1 3. led...

...with bayonet and claymore. Be deliberate, Wolfe had said, and take aim : "A cool well-ordered fire is much more destructive and formidable than the quickest fire in confusion." He was sure of his men. They were regulars, highly disciplined. They knew that this was their last...