The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^132) Chapter Four tionships provided a passable substitute for the customary patterns of traditional social groupings—the very ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 133 pline, but also because the rank and file found real psychological satisfaction i ...
(^134) Chapter Four The improved efficiency aroused by drill soon became apparent to other military men of Europe. Prince Mauric ...
Advances in Europe's Art of War, 1600–1750^135 country, informed military men of Europe all agreed that the new drill had defini ...
136 Chapter Four Musket Drill Devised by Maurice of Orange The engravings on the following pages show eight of a total of forty- ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 137 11, Hold up your musket and present 12, Give fire Reliance on foreigners had obvi ...
13, Take down your musket and carry it with your rest 14, Uncock your match English civil wars (1642–49), and again, much later, ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 139 15, And put it again betwixt your fingers 16, Blow your pan differentiation withi ...
140 Chapter Four 24, Charge your musket 25, Draw out your scouring stick finally to have been brought under control. Ravaging so ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750^141 one caliber of musket ball was required. And since each soldier could be trained ...
(^142) Chapter Four achieve than in earlier ages. But what froze infantry weapons at a given level was resistance to any change ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 143 ministrators had relied on to govern military professionals un necessary in tran ...
5 Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence, 1700–1789 European rulers remarkable suc cess in bureaucratizing organized ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 145 began to shift perceptibly, as migrants from a crowded countryside set out ...
(^146) Chapter Five activities, whether such predators were licensed by public authority as privateers or enlisted as soldiers, ...
Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence^147 Disequilibrium Arising from Frontier Expansion Any human skill that achiev ...
(^148) Chapter Five European balance of power. States located towards the margins of the European world—Great Britain and Russia ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 149 the continent of Europe had won a qualified success. Instead of re newing ...
150 Chapter Fire of North America. As a result, American manpower and local sup plies permitted more and more significant local ...
Strains on Europe's Bureaucratization of Violence 151 when small, comparatively weak states alone permitted them free pur suit ...
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