Best O'luck; How a Fighting Kentuckian Won the Thanks of Britain's King
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As I learned during my special training in England, the use of hand grenades was [89] BEST 0' LUCK first introduced in warfare by the French, in 1667. The British did not use them until ten years later. After the battle of Waterloo the hand grenade was counted an obsolete weapon until the Japanese revived its use in the war with Russia. The rude grenades first used by the British in the present war weighed about eight pounds. To-day, in the British army, the men who have been trained to throw g...renades — now of lighter construction and much more efficient and certain action — are officially known as "bombers." for this reason: When grenade fighting came back to its own in this war, each battalion trained a certain number of men in the use of grenades, and, naturally, called them "grenadiers." The British Grenadier Guards, the senior foot regiment in the British Army, made formal com- plaint against the use of their time-honored name in this connection, and British rev- erence for tradition did the rest.
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