Dear Bernard i was recently reading up on the 95th on www.wikipedia.org due to reading your books and came across an interesting story about an Irish rifleman named Plunket who shot a french general at a range of between 400 and 800 yards and then at the same range shot a frenchman who came to the generals aid.What struck me as odd about the story was the description of the riflemans stance when he fired it was said that he lay on his back rifle butt under his right arm and barrel resting upon his crossed feet I found this an odd way to fire a rifle it was described as the regiments approved method of firing I wondered if this was a mistake or if you knew anything about this method of firing the rifle? Richard PS. Keep all the books coming they are all brilliant and very enjoyable and hope you will soon have Starbuck marching again.