nd foot my regimental knowledge is pretty much during the napoleonic wars i'll have to research the other periods but at that time they were equipped with muskets early on there was some talk of providing rifles but expected perceived supply issues of rifled weapons caused them to stick with muskets as you can imagine this made for interesting skirmishing the french were equipped with muskets also so fire fights probably took place at distances of about yds if you had nerves of steel you'd wait for your opposite number to come within yds i'll add some weaponry and fighting tactics to the article eventaully it's all a bit rough at the moment thanks for the interest anyway