Artifact Detail
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| Franco Reviewing Victorious Troops |
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| Photograph |
| Spanish Civil War |
| General Franco standing at a podium watches Falangist soldiers marching past while the Guadia Mora stnds guard. |
| Probably Authentic |
| Related: Marching , Rifle |
| Related Facts | |
| The steady, regular marching step was a marked feature of Roman legions. Vegetius wrote "They should march with the common military step twenty miles in five summer-hours, and with the full step, which is quicker, twenty-four miles in the same number of hours". | |
| Mauser was founded as Königliche Waffen Schmieden on 31 July 1811 by Frederick I | |
| The Mauser Model 98 was widely adopted and copied, and is the foundation of many of today's sporting bolt action rifles. |