1st Edition

From Flintlock to Rifle Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866

By Steven T. Ross Copyright 1996
218 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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Biography

Steven T. Ross