EXERCISE OF THE SMALL ARMS AND GREAT GUNS

A rare early official publication, setting out firing exercises in the Georgian Navy. The concise book gives words of command, and detailed instructions for carrying out the discharge of "firelocks", bayonet exercises and the use of ramrods. The book also instructs its readers on the firing of ship's cannons. An authentic rarity that gives a salty flavour of 18th Century naval warfare. Reprint of the 1778 original edition.