_Infantry Firing_ (Vol. iv., p. 407.).--The following short paragraph on
this subject may be acceptable to your correspondent H. Y. W. N. I found
it among a small collection of newspaper cuttings; but I cannot give
either the name or date of the paper from which it was taken.
"MUSKET BALLS.--Marshal Saxe computed that, in a battle, only one
ball of eighty-five takes effect. Others, that only one in forty
strikes, and no more than one in four hundred is fatal. At the
battle of Tournay, in Flanders, fought on the 22nd of May, 1794,
it is calculated that two hundred and thirty-six musket-shot were
expended in disabling each soldier who suffered."