Kamis, 20 Juli 2017

The Birth of Modern War

How the 1860s changed the fields of battle forever. The 10-year span that began with the American Civil War in 1861 and climaxed with a Prussian-led German army besieging Paris in 1870 changed warfare as profoundly as – and certainly more abruptly than – the introduction of steel blades or the development of gunpowder weapons. …

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