major developments 1850-1914
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MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS 1850-1914Improved technology , improved communication & changing organisation facilitated a substantial increase in the destructive projection of force by armies
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RIFLING BY MACHINE TOOLSRifles , single shot , magazine clip & breach loaders. Martini Henry 1879 & Lee Enfield 1900 Rifling = greater range , accuracy and rate of fire.
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Machine gunsGatling gun 1879 Vickers MGs of 1914 fire 400-600 rounds per minute.
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1840s Railway Boom More logistics move further , faster and arrive in better condition. Rail head supply depots become a focus for battles. AJ P Taylor talks about war by timetable 1914.
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Telegraph Telegraph has an effect on strategic command but not battlefield tactical command.
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DELEGATED COMMAND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - USA President (Lincoln) Commander of Grand Army of The Republic (Scott then Grant) Commander of Army of Potomac (Meade) & Commander of Army of Tennessee (Sherman).
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DELEGATED/HEROIC COMMAND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CSA President (Davis) Commander of Army of Northern Virginia (Lee) Commanders of Army Corps (Jackson & Longstreet)
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ORGANISATION OF SOLDIERS (CORPS SYSTEM)Corps = continuity.3) Prussian Reservist system2) British volunteer system1) American Civil War Draft (Conscription)3 2 1
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