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Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower 1642 - 1765
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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 contem
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Hardcover, 224 pages
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February 19th 2015
by Frontline Books
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c18,
colonial,
history,
infantry,
owned,
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Destructive and Formidable is a quantitative look at British infantry doctrine using period sources from the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century up to just before the Napoleonic wars. If anything you can see the constancy, which drove the success in battle of British forces, even when outnumbered.
As a wargame designer this has got all the detail I need to model infantry battles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are comparative weights and rates of fire. Measured hit ra ...more
As a wargame designer this has got all the detail I need to model infantry battles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are comparative weights and rates of fire. Measured hit ra ...more
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