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Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

Later the same day, however, at the Battle of Cacabelos, British Rifleman Thomas Plunket, a noted sharpshooter in the 95th Rifles, one of the British units still under effective military discipline, advanced alone towards the French.

Battle of Upperville

He made a stand west of the hamlet of Rector's Crossroads along the stone bridge over Goose Creek, where for two more hours he was able to withstand repeated Federal attacks from mounted cavalry, as well as the 16th Michigan Infantry, which sent skirmishers and sharpshooters forward to pick off the Confederate gunners.

Frank Butler

Frank E. Butler (1850–1926), husband of Annie Oakley and a sharpshooter

Hellenic Force in Cyprus

In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, the character Kure Galanos is the daughter of an ex-ELDYK sharpshooter.

Henry Ware Lawton

During the Battle of Paye, Lawton, as usual, was in the midst of the fighting and was killed by a Filipino sharpshooter, ironically under the command of a general named Licerio Gerónimo.

Jehan Georges Vibert

During the Franco-Prussian War, Vibert became a sharpshooter and was wounded at the battle of Malmaison in October 1870.

M. Phil Senini

In 1977, Senini made his acting debut by playing the small role of a sharpshooter in the World War III threat film, Twilight's Last Gleaming.

Nikolaos Morakis

He scored 205 points, finishing in third behind the American brothers John and Sumner Paine.

Robert M. McTureous, Jr.

Private McTureous was sent to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, for his recruit training where he qualified as a sharpshooter with both the M1 Garand and the Browning Automatic Rifle by virtue of his 291 and 112 scores, respectively.

Ron Powlus

He also spent two years as executive assistant to the Democratic Policy Committee of the Pennsylvania State Senate where he worked alongside another former Northeastern Pennsylvania sports hero, Bishop Hannan sharpshooter TJ McNulty.

Rudi Stephan

He completed his only opera, Die ersten Menschen, shortly after the outbreak of the war, and it was eventually premiered in Frankfurt, five years after his death from a bullet in the brain fired by a Russian sharpshooter, at Chodaczków Wielki near Tarnopol on the Galician Front, now Ukraine.

William Nicholas Willis

He had become a supplier of horses and fodder to the British Army in South Africa and he recruited Australian bushmen as scouts and sharpshooters during the Boer War.


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