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From Flintlock to Rifle - Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866 (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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From Flintlock to Rifle - Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866 (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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In From Flintlock to Rifle, Professor Ross traces the development
of infantry tactics from the mid-eighteenth century, when infantry
fought in rigid linear formations, until the second half of the
nineteenth century, by which time infantrymen with rifled weapons
were learning to advance in open order and use aimed fire. The
author demonstrates that this transition in tactics involved social
and technological change as well as military innovation. Old Regime
armies, recruited from a narrow social base and armed with
slow-firing, short-range, inaccurate weapons, relied upon harsh
discipline and formalized evolutions to attain tactical
proficiency. When the French Royal Army collapsed it was replaced
with a mass citizen army. This contained elements of the old
tactical system but placed a new emphasis on mobility, flexibility,
and individual initiative. Napoleon's rivals either imitated
aspects of the French system or sought to copy the spirit of the
new tactics, engineering social reforms from above and creating
their own citizen armies. After 1815, generals and politicians
continued to develop tactical doctrines that embodied the lessons
of the Napoleonic wars. Industrialization had a swift impact on
weapons technology and firearms improved in range, accuracy, and
rate of fire. As a result, military men had to modify their drill
and battle tactics to cope with increased firepower. A process
initiated by the French Revolution was thus accelerated by the
Industrial Revolution.
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