The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^232) Chapter Seven who ever since 1840 had been secretly building up stocks of a breech-loading rifle, took the precaution of ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 233 of ironworking attuned to the manufacture of the Brown Bess (almost unchanged since Marlbo ...
(^234) Chapter Seven by disassembling a number of pistols, jumbling the parts and then reassembling them into workable revolvers ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 235 could produce handguns en masse and on demand. By 1870, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, Den ...
(^236) Chapter Seven 1854 decided to rebore their existing stock of muskets to make them rifles and invest in Minié bullets—a sh ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 237 tween 1855 and 1870 as a direct by-product of the Crimean War. The new machinery remained, ...
(^238) Chapter Seven In 1850s and 1860s, imperfect knowledge of the molecular struc tures of steel made it impossible to cast g ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 239 hood in return. From his official position Armstrong proceeded to organize the Elswick Ord ...
240 Chapter Seven in a noisy crossfire of rival claims, the committee recommended that the government terminate the contract wit ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 241 Nor did the Union’s victory blight their prosperity for long. Lesser countries of Europe a ...
(^242) Chapter Seven Armies, on the other hand, were insulated from the initial impact of the mid-nineteenth century mutation in ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 243 therefore, the struggle turned out to be more nearly equal than it had been in the Crimea. ...
244 Chapter Seven pitched battles, though not without heavy losses. In the political reor ganization that followed, all of Ital ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 245 Napoleon Ill’s powerful, “progressive” ideology combined with a fully professional army an ...
(^246) Chapter Seven Maurice of Orange. With a breech-loader, what would prevent an excited or frightened soldier from wasting h ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 247 army, but the elected representatives gathered in the Landtag refused to approve the neces ...
248 Chapter Seven unprecedented prestige and authority. The General Staff, it will be remembered, had been established by Scharn ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 249 mysteries of electricity. Periodic breakdowns and unexpected delays continued to occur.^39 ...
(^250) Chapter Seven and many an earlier rival by making peace after defeat, the better to fight again another day. War, conceiv ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 251 sepot, after its designer. The French also had high hopes for a machine gun, the mitraille ...
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