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NEEDLEGUNS: PRUSSIAN ADVANTAGE

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
NEEDLEGUNS: PRUSSIAN ADVANTAGE
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Fes 27 1869 FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER ossible to perfection andwehr Good said De Bernus if the Prussians have the landwehr the Austrians have the landsturm the whole Austrian population will rise. Yes if the first battles are hotly disputed yes if there is a chance to drive back the Prus sivns by rising. But threefourths of the Prussians are armed with needleguns which tire eight or ten shots a minute. The time has gone by when as Marshal Saxe said the musket was only a bayonet handle.

And of whom did he say that Of the French a fiery people a warlike people and not methodical and military like the Austri ans. You know that victory is a result wholly moral to inspire in the enemy a fear which you do not yourself feel thats the whole secret. Most frequently when two regiments charge each other one of the two turns tail before getting in arms length of its adversary. If the new guns with which the Prussians are armed prove as effective as is anticipated.

I am afraid the terror will be so great in Austria that the landsturm Summoned from Koenigsgraetz to Trieste and trom Salzburg to.

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