299. _Infantry Firing._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to
authentic instances of the comparative numbers of rounds of cartridges
fired in action, with the number of men killed? I think I have read it
in Sir W. Napier's _History of the Peninsular War_, and also in _The
Times_, but omitted to make a note. I have some recollection of 60,000
rounds beings fired, and only one man killed! and another instance of
80,000, and twenty-five killed! Any remarkable instances of the
inefficiency of musketry fire will be acceptable.