From Flintlock to Rifle

Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866

Steven T. Ross

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Routledge
29 February 1996

History; Land forces & warfare; Military tactics

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. 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. Ross's book comprehensively covers this seminal era in the history of warfare, it is vital reading for anyone interested in the evolution of modern war.

By: Steven T. Ross
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9780714641935
ISBN 10: 0714641936
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 29 February 1996
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven T. Ross