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From Flintlock to Rifle - Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866 (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
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From Flintlock to Rifle - Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866 (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
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This is a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry
tacticts from the time of Frederick the Great to the beginning of
what many see as the era of modern war, in the 1860s. Ross lays
social and political change side by side with technical change. He
argues that the French revolution, due to the fervour and loyalty
it inspired in its participants, led to huge citizen armies of
devolved command which were able to make use of new tactics that
swept the poorly paid and poorly treated professional armies of
their enemies from the field. Shortly after the Napoleonic wars
other European countries experienced similar social change and by
the middle of the Nineteenth Century these massive conscript armies
were equipped with breech-loading rifles and more powerful
artillery. The battlefield of the late 1860's had become a place
where close infantry formations could not survive for long in the
linear formations of the past.
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