Infantry Fire Tactics

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A late-Victorian military treatise by Charles Blair Mayne of the Royal Engineers on the use of infantry rifle fire in battle. It covers the effects of modern firearms, the regulation of fire, fire discipline and the tactics of attack and defence in an era of breech-loading and magazine rifles.

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• Winston Churchill: “So I ordered Hamley's Operations of War, Prince Kraft's Letters on Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery, Maine's Infantry Fire Tactics, together with a number of histories dealing with the American Civil,…”