men that would use pikes but would soon be replaced as supplies grew. Already by the initial signs of confrontation between the North and the South there existed five separate categories of artillery: field‚ siege and fortification‚ seacoast‚ mountain and prairie‚ and volley/rapid fire (Gatling). Field artillery was designed to be easily moved about in a shifting‚ dynamic‚ battlefield. To do so they were made to be lightweight‚ mobile‚ and of relatively small
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war tactics in 1914 had not caught up with modern artillery and machine guns. By 1918‚ this had all changed. At the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918‚ the British Expeditionary Force put into practice the lessons learned over the previous four years and took advantage of the modern weaponry (tanks which debut in Somme in September 1916)‚ heavy artillery‚ aero planes) that had became available to them‚ The RAF carried out ground attack‚ artillery spotting‚ interdiction of enemy lines of communication
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amount of casualties of any American war. The Battle of Gettysburg alone‚ for example‚ resulted in approximately 50‚000 casualties. The improvements of military and civilian technology also aided both sides of the war‚ from telegrams and railroads to artillery and rifles. The most widely used personal firearm of the American Civil War were rifled muskets. However many Revolutionary period muskets were still in use‚ these muskets were very inaccurate
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History Prep 2/4/15 Why did the Western Front end up in a stalemate between 1915 and 1917? In August 1914 after the murder in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand of Austria‚ 2 main alliances set off to war. 2 of the nations of the Triple Alliance‚ Austria and Germany went to war against the Triple Entente‚ Britain‚ France and Russia. In this essay‚ we will focus on the development of the events on The Western Front where Germany faced France. All the powers had thought and planned their war strategy
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BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE 1914 One of many important battles in 1914 in which both sides attempted to fight a war of movement which would see the war ended by December 1914. It was also important in contributing to the stalemate which eventuated at the end of 1914. It heralded the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The importance of this battle is that it was the culmination by both sides of any attempt at a war of movement‚ as it was realized that frontal offensives were impossible. Thus the ‘race
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Word choice gives Swift artillery to create satire in "A Modest Proposal". In "A Modest Proposal"‚ Swift uses several different words to create satire‚ one of which is the word ’breeders ’. He uses the term breeders in reference to the women. In several paragraphs he talks about these breeders and their role. "I calculate there may be about 200‚000 couples whose wives are breeders;"(Swift 2) The way that he refers to the women as breeders instead of mothers‚ wives or women creates satire. Instead
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D-Day And The 101st The 101st Airborne Division‚ was at first activated in 1918 then a little while later deactivated. Then three years later re-activated in 1921 as a reserve unit. As a reserve unit was later disbanded in 1942 as a reserve unit and re-instated when the United States went to Europe to fight in WW II. The 101st was considered to be an elite unit‚ the men had a high self-esteem for each other. They went through two years of training to prepare for the invasion of Normandy also known
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June 1944 began Task Force Mason‚ a mission of 15 men that was sent ahead of the Ghost Army’s main force. There in Normandy they made use of dummy artillery emplacements located a mile ahead of the actual artillery unit. There they made the dummy emplacements to confuse and fool aircraft and counter artillery units from the Germans. This resulted in an experimental success for the unit and surprisingly there were no casualties from this. In September
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another invasion. One example of how the result of the Korean War affects events today would be when North Korea fired artillery at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in 2010. As a part of their military training‚ the South Korean Army was shooting artillery into the water. Although the artillery did not land on North Korean soil‚ the North Korean military responded with an artillery fire on Yeonpyeong which was South Korean territory. This attack was significant because it was very unexpected for
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within their highly effective trenches mowed down the oncoming troops.It was remembered as the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army when 60‚000 men became casualties‚ of whom 20‚000 were killed or died of wounds. The failure of the artillery bombardment just days before the Somme was a key reason to why the first day of the Somme was a disaster. Firstly‚ as stated earlier‚ the German trenches were better than the allied trenches. The Northern area of the battle front was quite vacant
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