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British Army Transformations from 1645-1913. this is part 2: Seven Years War to Crimean War. Each part is 20 pages!!
Title: British Army Transformations from 1645-1913. this is part 2: Seven Years War to Crimean War. Each part is 20 pages!!
Category: History / European History
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British Army Transformations from 1645-1913. this is part 2: Seven Years War to Crimean War. Each part is 20 pages!!
As Britain began to spread its Empire around the globe, it was only a matter of time before the European power struggle would ignite another conflict. The War of Spanish Succession indirectly carried over to the War of Austrian Succession (1739-48), which was quickly followed by the Seven Years' War (1756-63) that extended as far as North America as the French and British battled for territory in the New World. As the standing army swelled to over 135,000 …showed first 75 words of 6113 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 6113 total…a precursor to the deadly application of the science of warfare that disintegrated Pickett's men during his charge at Gettysburg eight years later, when the Union mini-ball proved much superior to the Confederate musket). In the end, the Crimea did help the British gain a foundation to remedy the Army's inadequacies in logistics and weaponry, it proved the field-hygiene practices were still abhorrent--two-thirds of the casualties of this war resulted from disease, not bullets.
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