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The American Rifled Musket: Technical Revolution Or Tactical Redundancy?, Alexandre F. Caillot
The American Rifled Musket: Technical Revolution Or Tactical Redundancy?, Alexandre F. Caillot
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The German soldier and military writer Freiherr von Bülow (1755-1816) once said that tactics were “the science of movements which are made in the presence of the enemy, that is, within his view, and within reach of his artillery.” This viewpoint, which he espoused in his seminal text Spirit of the System of Modern War (published in German in 1799), was representative of principles that would hold dominion over much of 19th-century-military thought. However, the 1850s was hardly a time of intellectual stagnation in which innovation lacked amongst the military theorists of Europe. Indeed, it was a period of discovery …