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Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower David John Blackmore

Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower By David John Blackmore

Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower by David John Blackmore


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Summary

Examines the effectiveness of British infantry firepower from 1642 to 1765 using original drill manuals and contemporary sources.

Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower Summary

Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower by David John Blackmore

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time, David Blackmore has gone back to original drill manuals and other contemporary sources to discover the reasons behind this. This book employs an approach that starts by considering the procedures and practices of soldiers in a given period and analyses those in order understand how things were done and, in turn, why events unfolded as they did. In doing so, he has discovered a specifically British set of tactics, which created this effectiveness and allowed it to be maintained over such a long period, correcting many of the misconceptions about British infantry firepower in the age of the musket and linear warfare in a major new contribution to our understanding of an important period of British military history.

About David John Blackmore

Dr David Blackmore is a former curator at the Royal Armouries and the author of Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars, British Cavalry of the Mid-18th Century and many other articles and contributions to books.

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GOR007863815
9781848327689
1848327684
Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower by David John Blackmore
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
20150201
224
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