Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics
- ISBN-10
- 0312375875
- ISBN-13
- 9780312375874
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-04-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Robert Bowman Bruce
Description
Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic World explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available during the Napoleonic period (1789-1815), and points out how the development of such weapons technology changed the face of the battlefield. Divided into five sections it highlights: - Individual components of the armies: the foot soldier, the cavalryman and the artilleryman, the equipment they wore and used, and how they fought together. - Technology change, the emergence of military professionalism, and the impact these changes had on the battlefield. - How units were used together on the battlefield, and strategic positioning of battle units. - Specialist techniques and equipment developed for artillery. - Naval warfare, from the ships in which the men fought to the weapons they carried.
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