musket drill

I gave him his first lesson in the musket drill.

One hundred men from all units, to whom he's going to teach musket drill and marching.

To Sharpe's eyes the battalion's musket drill was lamentably slow, but it did not matter; they were fighting.

Storytelling by Jonathan Kruk, as well as cannon firings, a musket drill and a demonstration of blacksmithing.

During the winter quarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, von Steuben taught a model company of 100 soldiers musket drill.

By early March, Philip and even Breen had become busy and proficient instructors of all of von Steuben's lessons: The new musket drill.

Prior to the adoption of metallic cartridges, most ammunition was composed of powder and a ball wrapped in paper or cloth soaked in animal fat, which was bitten open during musket drill.

The regiments, the Olde 78th Fraser Highlanders and Les Compagnies Franches de la Marine perform daily musket drills, fife and drum and bagpipe shows.

Beyond the flags the red-coated soldiers were doing musket drill, but Loup did not watch them long, instead he inched the telescope southwards until, at last, he saw two men in green coats strolling along the deserted ramparts.

Musket drills and battle demonstrations by the Bergen County Militia will be the martial highlight of an 18th-century Encampment and Craft Fair at the Dey Mansion Museum in Wayne Saturday and next Sunday.

A further suggestion that the sepoys tear the cartridges open with their hands (instead of biting them open) was rejected as impractical - many of the sepoys had been undertaking musket drill daily for years, and the practice of biting the cartridge open was second nature to them.