Excerpt from The History of the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Company: A Century of Success Still later, there developed a fad of what were called fire combats. These consisted of military lists in which the participants wore helmets from which fire would shoot, and used swords and clubs from which sparks gave out at every stroke, lances with fiery points, and bucklers, which when struck, gave forth a detonation and a flame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.