NAPOLEON’S INFLUENCE ON MODERN WESTERN MILITARY ARMIES History 100‚ Staff Group A‚ CGSC Class 14-001 27 March 2014 1 Throughout history‚ military leaders have immortalized their legacies by vanquishing their enemies in the battlefield against overwhelming odds. Soldiers and historians have revered their accomplishments by studying their mastery in the art of warfare with the hopes mimicking their accomplishments. Of them all‚ Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the best military leader in the history
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The Third Battle of Ypres‚ also known as the Passchendaele campaign‚ ranks as one of the most controversial offensives undertaken during the war. With the failure of the Nivelle offensive in April and the resulting French Army Mutiny on May 3‚ Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig convinced a reluctant British War Cabinet‚ which still remembered the appalling losses from the Somme campaign of 1916‚ that an offensive was necessary to divert German attention from the French and prevent a collapse on the Western
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movies titled The Alamo in which both reenact the events surrounding the defense of the Alamo. The first movie made shows Crockett stealing cattle and destroying artillery. However‚ there is no evidence in history detailing his actions. Also‚ both movies wrongly tell Santa Anna’s attack on the Alamo because he didn’t truly have the heavy artillery as the movie shows. The last film‚ Cold Mountain‚ is not based on any historical events. It is solely for entertainment to describe the emotional turmoil the
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for corporals. During the winter of 1776-1777‚ Washington ordered the establishment of three artillery regiments. In the Army’s 1967 comprehensive Enlisted Grade Structure Study noted‚ “Artillerymen were recognized as specialists from the start and were given higher pay than Infantryman.” It also noted a need for other “specialists” in the enlisted ranks to perform certain technical skills for the artillery. During this period service and support tasks were typically performed by civilians or detailed
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battalion was called the Tigers. That nickname in time was applied to all of the Louisiana troops of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The tiger symbol came from the famous Washington Artillery of New Orleans. A militia unit that traces its history back to the 1830s‚ the Washington Artillery had a logo that featured a
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Why the First World War lasted so long The First World War (1914-1918) was a war that lasted substantially longer than anyone anticipated. This was largely due to the technological developments created by the industrial revolution coupled with the sheer scale of the conflict and the huge amount of resources that the two armed sides were willing to commit. The war lasted as long as it did because of the new style of warfare employed and the fact that military leaders of the time were slow to realise
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phosgene specifically‚ when compared to air meant that the gas was able to roll along the ground‚ “seeking out and filling all the low places‚ including trenches‚ dugouts‚ and shell holes.” Although this did not require large-scale deployment of artillery to fire the gases‚ using wind as a vehicle for the gas clouds was inconsistent and sometimes ineffective. If the wind was too weak or changed direction‚ friendly casualties could occur. The use of cylinders meant that poison gas was “an unpredictable
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1 The ww1 was devastating because of the twentieth-century technology they used all kind of the technology. They had powerful guns and artillery and the mobility of the roads made it stronger so they could defend themselves they even used airplanes on the battlefield. They made all kind of modern weapons but the most destructive weapon was the barbed wire it would sting the soldiers from the other army they would become tangled in the wire easy for the other soldiers to kill the soldiers from the
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somewhat of a beating and do some major damage to the germans. Well i could not finish yesterday’s entry we had to take cover because the germans started to bombard us with artillery fire and we lost about 30 people in about two minutes and we found their body covered in rats this morning. So today we are going to use the tanks and artillery and fire at the same time we might win this battle because they seem to be sleeping because they are not shooting at all I don’t know if they are waiting for supplies
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Descriptions of the battles of Verdun and Somme The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest battle of World War One‚ which yielded many casualties and was the catalyst for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. The objective of the Battle of Somme was to help alleviate the pressure on the British that the Germans had been exerting at the battle Verdun. “The attack on Verdun (the Germans code-named it ’Judgment’) came about because of a plan by the German Chief of General
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