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WORDS LEIGH NEVILLE
10 DEADLIE
SNIPERS
Scoring the longest shots or the highest number of kills,
take a look at history’s most lethal battleield hunters
rom the Spanish marksman who handedly, sometimes even halting entire armies
killed Admiral Horatio Nelson at in their tracks.
Trafalgar to the shadowy Iraqi Many of history’s most successful shooters
insurgent Juba who videotaped his have not only packed deadly aim, but
F kills, the sniper remains a igure to possessed immense skill at blending in with
be respected and feared. Striking unseen from their surroundings. From the harsh snow-strewn
incredibly long range, stopping their target with battleields of the Finnish Winter War, to the
a single well-placed shot, a lone marksman jungles of Vietnam, these hidden hunters have
has often turned the tide of a battle single- left their own mark on history’s battleields.
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