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Defective Muskets and a Shocking Recommendation!

12/22/2018

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By Tom Fournier

It is in June and July of 1804.  The 41st Regiment of Foot have already been in Canada since the autumn of 1799.  On behalf of the Board of Ordnance, Lieutenant Colonel George Glasgow of the Royal Artillery has supervised an inspection of the muskets of the 41st Regiment.
 
He finds they are in a remarkably deplorable state.  For those who love the minutia of detail associated with the British Army of the Napoleonic Age, his reports and summaries offer incredible and fascinating details!  He wraps it all up with what I think is a shocking recommendation.
 
Report – 20 June 1804
 In the examination of arms belonging to the 41st Regt. Of Foot the following points have been attended to – Viz

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