From Flintlock to Rifle: Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866 - Steven T. Ross - Google Books

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This is a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry tacticts from the time of Frederick the Great to the beginning of what many see as the era of modern war, in the 1860s. Ross lays social and political change side by side with technical change.…