Download or read book Observations on the Past and Present State of Fire Arms and on the Probable Effects in War of the New Musket War College Series written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
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Download or read book Observations on the Past and Present State of Fire arms written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1852 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Observations of Fire Arms and the Probable Effects in War of the New Musket written by Colonel Chesney and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was clearly quite exercised at the state of the Royal Regiment when he put pen to paper, setting out all that he saw wrong with it and what was needed to put it right. It appears that the Artillery did not get its fair share of the overall military cake and its officers were regarded almost as second class citizens. He points out that the artillery was in a far stronger position in terms of its importance in the army, of numbers of guns and their employment in Marlborough s time than at the time of writing (over one hundred and forty years later). The book is dedicated to the Prince Regent in the hope that he, as "the harbinger of progress in the present day will light a few fires in the right places. He sets out to show the tardy progress of our Artillery compared with that of other nations. He highlights what he regards as three defects among others: firstly the proportion of Artillery in the Army is inadequate; secondly promotion is so slow that officers are "quite worn out by the time they get to Colonel and he writes of "the paralysing decrepitude of worn out frames belonging to the superior officers of artillery; (it took the author 51 years to reach the rank of major-general), and thirdly the separation of the Artillery branches of the Ordnance from the rest of the Service does not bode well for the Army at large. This is a very thorough review of the state of the British artillery, its weapons, its organisation and its officers and their career prospects. He also a hihgly technical assessment of the new musket (rifle) coming into service, the Minie, and compares its efficiency with models in service with other countries.
Download or read book Observations of Fire Arms and the Probable Effects in War of the New Musket written by Colonel Chesney and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations of the Past and Present State of Fire arms written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on the past and present State of Firearms and on the probable effects in war of the new musket with a proposition for reorganizing the Royal Regiment of Artillery etc written by Francis Rawdon CHESNEY (General, R.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on the Past and Present State of Fire Arms the New Musket written by Francis Rawdon Chesney and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat written by Earl J. Hess and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual performance on the battlefield and its impact on the course of the Civil War. Many contemporaries were impressed with the new weapon's increased range of 500 yards, compared to the smoothbore musket's range of 100 yards, and assumed that the rifle was a major factor in prolonging the Civil War. Historians have also assumed that the weapon dramatically increased casualty rates, made decisive victories rare, and relegated cavalry and artillery to far lesser roles than they played in smoothbore battles. Hess presents a completely new assessment of the rifle musket, contending that its impact was much more limited than previously supposed and was confined primarily to marginal operations such as skirmishing and sniping. He argues further that its potential to alter battle line operations was virtually nullified by inadequate training, soldiers' preference for short-range firing, and the difficulty of seeing the enemy at a distance. He notes that bullets fired from the new musket followed a parabolic trajectory unlike those fired from smoothbores; at mid-range, those rifle balls flew well above the enemy, creating two killing zones between which troops could operate untouched. He also presents the most complete discussion to date of the development of skirmishing and sniping in the Civil War. Drawing upon the observations and reflections of the soldiers themselves, Hess offers the most compelling argument yet made regarding the actual use of the rifle musket and its influence on Civil War combat. Engagingly written and meticulously researched, his book will be of special interest to Civil War scholars, buffs, re-enactors, and gun enthusiasts alike.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable. This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
