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The Opettator

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1832

MARSHAL SAXE computed, that in a battle only one ball of 85 takes effect. Others have computed, that only one in 40 strikes, and no more than one in 400 is fatal. At the battle of Tournay, in Flanders, fought on the 22d May 1794, it is calculated that 236 musket-shot were expended in disabling each soldier that suffered.