A New System of Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and Improved Fire-arms
Author: Emory Upton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 698
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Author: Emory Upton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 698
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emory 1839-1881 Upton
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Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781371320669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Hay Athole Macdonald
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emory Upton
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 445
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl J. Hess
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0807159387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEARL J. HESS is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign ; The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee ; and The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.
Author: Emory Upton
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Published: 1873
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl J. Hess
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0807159395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course of the conflict because soldiers had neither the training nor the desire to take advantage of the musket rifle's increased range. Drawing on the drill manuals available to officers and a close reading of battle reports, Civil War Infantry Tactics demonstrates that linear tactics provided the best formations and maneuvers to use with the single-shot musket, whether rifle or smoothbore. The linear system was far from an outdated relic that led to higher casualties and prolonged the war. Indeed, regimental officers on both sides of the conflict found the formations and maneuvers in use since the era of the French Revolution to be indispensable to the survival of their units on the battlefield. The training soldiers received in this system, combined with their extensive experience in combat, allowed small units a high level of articulation and effectiveness. Unlike much military history that focuses on grand strategies, Hess zeroes in on formations and maneuvers (or primary tactics), describing their purpose and usefulness in regimental case studies, and pinpointing which of them were favorites of unit commanders in the field. The Civil War was the last conflict in North America to see widespread use of the linear tactical system, and Hess convincingly argues that the war also saw the most effective tactical performance yet in America's short history.
Author: Steven T. Ross
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0714646024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld Regime armies, recruited from a narrow social base and armed with slow-firing, short-range, inaccurate weapons, relied upon harsh discipline and formalized evolutions to attain tactical proficiency. When the French Royal Army collapsed it was replaced with a mass citizen army. This contained elements of the old tactical system but placed a new emphasis on mobility, flexibility, and individual initiative. Napoleon's rivals either imitated aspects of the French system or sought to copy the spirit of the new tactics, engineering social reforms from above and creating their own citizen armies.