Destructive and Formidable
British Infantry Firepower, 1642-1756
Published on 30. November 2014
224 pages
978-1-4738-4218-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time, David Blackmore has gone back to original drill manuals and other contemporary sources to discover the reasons behind this.**This book employs an approach that starts by considering the procedures and practices of soldiers in a given period and analyses those in order understand how things were done and, in turn, why events unfolded as they did. In doing so, he has discovered a specifically British set of tactics, which created this effectiveness and allowed it to be maintained over such a long period, correcting many of the misconceptions about British infantry firepower in the age of the musket and linear warfare in a major new contribution to our understanding of an important period of British military history.
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Content
- Intro
- Coverpage
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Age of the Matchlock, 1642 to 1688
- 3 The Origins of Platoon Firing and its Introduction into the English and Scots Armies
- 4 William III and the Nine Years War
- 5 The Age of Marlborough, 1702 to 1714
- 6 Humphrey Bland and the Duke of Cumberland, 1714 to 1749
- 7 The Seven Years War in Europe
- 8 The French and Indian War
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
