The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^172) Chapter Five into being around the person of Gribeauval; that leaders of this group had clearly in mind what could be ach ...
Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence 173 French Ministry of War accordingly decreed in 1781 that to qualify for inf ...
(^174) Chapter Five an enduring “classic” form, field artillery design reached a plateau with Gribeauval’s achievement. The fiel ...
Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence 175 Nevertheless, though the development of an efficient field artillery was c ...
176 Chapter Five naval gunfoundry at Indret, an island at the mouth of the Loire. In this way, French planners hoped that the Fr ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence^177 industry in the neighborhood of Berlin, by importing skilled personnel fro ...
178 Chapter Fire The grandiose character and ultimate failure of the Le Creusot- Indret plan for supplying the French navy with ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 179 After the disasters of the Seven Years War, French ministers drew the conc ...
(^180) Chapter Vive tional naval preponderance so that peace, when it came in 1783, se cured American independence without over ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 181 the eighteenth century, when British naval administration started to pay i ...
182 Chapter Five French,^53 whereas whenever a crisis arose, the British Parliament could be counted on to authorize extra taxes ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 183 contracting and sustained by the Bank of England’s credit therefore arose ...
(^184) Chapter Fire redcoats from complete disaster, though barely, for in January 1779, the British army in New York had only f ...
The Old Regime at Sea The ships portrayed here show how warship design altered from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in ...
186 Chapter Six Serious problems arose in fitting so many new citizens into society. Urban employment and food supplies did not ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions^187 this divergence; it developed as a result of hasty improvisation and desperat ...
188 Chapter Six the French army, especially those stationed in and near Paris, became affected by the revolutionary agitation th ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 189 To be able to prevail on that famous day, the attackers required the tacit ac ...
190 Chapter Six holders of Paris, who had to be well enough off to buy their own uniforms and weapons. But, from its inception, ...
Impact of Political and Industrial Revolutions 191 A tip point came after June 1791 when the king’s attempted flight from Paris ...
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