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"David Sachs" <sachs1926@comcast.new> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know when the word "sharpshooter" was first used in English?
>
> I found a reference to it being a translation of the German "scharfshutz"
> ca. 1802. If correct, this would debunk the story that it originated with
> the Sharpes rifle in the 1860s.



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