FROM FLINTLOCK TO RIFLE by Steven T. Ross ( 9780714641935 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

FROM FLINTLOCK TO RIFLE
INFANTRY TACTICS, 1740-1866

By:

Steven T. Ross

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0714641936

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9780714641935

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

29 February, 1996

Pages:

218

Description:

This book provides a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry tactics from the time of Fredrick the Great to the beginning of what many see as the era of modern war in the 1860's.

Synopsis:

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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1, black & white illustrations

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Frank Cass Publishers

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