How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during
the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War,
the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years
later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles
apart. How did this transformation come about, and what impact did
it have on the experience of the soldiers of the period? Stephen
Manning, in this meticulously researched and vividly written study,
describes the developments in firepower and, using the first-hand
accounts of the soldiers, shows how their perception of battle
changed. Innovations like the percussion and breech-loading rifle
influenced the fighting in the Crimean War of the 1850s and the
colonial campaigns of the 1870s and 1880s, in particular in the
Anglo-Zulu War and the wars in Egypt and Sudan. The machine gun was
used to deadly effect at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, and
equally dramatic advances in artillery took warfare into a new era
of tactics and organisation. Stephen Manning's work provides the
reader with an accurate and fascinating insight into a key aspect
of nineteenth-century military history.
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