



Produced by Brian Coe, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive). The book cover image was created by the
transcriber and is placed in the public domain.







  Transcriber’s Note

  Text printed in italics has been transcribed between _underscores_.
  Small capitals have been replace with ALL CAPITALS. Superscript texts
  are transcribed as ^{text}.

  Sidenotes are surrounded by ~tildes~.

  More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text.




  CLASS BOOK
  FOR
  THE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY
  HYTHE.

  PREPARED FOR THE USE OF OFFICERS.

  BY
  COLONEL E. C. WILFORD,
  _Assistant-Commandant and Chief Instructor_.

  HYTHE:
  W. S. PAINE, STATIONER, POST OFFICE, HIGH STREET.

  1861.




INTRODUCTION.


The School of Musketry was founded in 1853, by the then
Commander-in-Chief, the late Viscount Hardinge, as a normal school of
instruction in Musket