Love the animated maps they have on that site, and the 360s.
Love the animated maps they have on that site, and the 360s.
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Patrick Henry
You are really mixing things together....i would now step away from the "deadly guns" topic.
@Most civil war battles was indecisive: Now the believe that one decisive battle or capturing the enemy's capital will win the war was common a very long time. History has proven that this wrong, from Cannae to the fall of Berlin.
" ...it appears the Virginia Military Institute will be heard from today."
- Iced EarthWith virtue as our beacon. Our cause is charged as treason, Battle worn and starving. Through the hell of war we'll keep marching. The birth of our new nation
And Austerlitz, Jena–Auerstedt and Friedland, Under Napoleon I show that it could be done. they where all battles that was decisive and resulted in treaties.
And Jena–Auerstedt show how a pursuit should be done.
And in the 1866 prussian-austria war and 1870-71 Franco-prussian war we again see that wars can be short and decisive... and that despite better firearms.
Thomas Bernstorff Aagaard
Jena–Auerstedt wasnt a decisive battle or lead to the defeat, the events afterwards were..like desertion and poor leadership. But yes, the pursuit of Jena is a good example....
Now the war of 1866 is actually something special, since Moltke used a strategy which was revolutionary for the european continent ( of course inspired by the ACW) like fast movement on rails and the movement of troops itself on the battlefield + its weaponry. But of course it has never been said that a war must last several years.And in the 1866 prussian-austria war and 1870-71 Franco-prussian war we again see that wars can be short and decisive
" ...it appears the Virginia Military Institute will be heard from today."
- Iced EarthWith virtue as our beacon. Our cause is charged as treason, Battle worn and starving. Through the hell of war we'll keep marching. The birth of our new nation
the 1866 campaign was not inspired by the civil war. He had been planing that campaign for years.
Just like when the war with Denmark got close he pulled a plan from his deskdrawer.
Since that was his job.
And the rest is the usual american myths.
The Prussians started implementing breachloaders in the early 1850ties...when the USarmy didn't even use rifle muskets. No influence.
The Prussians used railroads in 1848... just Like the danish army did. So that was not new.
The movement of troops by Railroad we se at first manassas is similar to the moves you see in 1848 when government troops had to put down rebellions.
The prussians tested the use of railroads for mobilization in 1861... it went badly so they made made the system better.
The civil war saw no use of quick mobilization with the use of railroads. Since there where no reserve forces to mobilize.
They did manage to move rather small forces at the strategic level. and it took a couple of weeks to do it.
The Prussian army allowed the company commanders to take initiativ. During the civil war it was at the brigade level things was done...
Civil war armies was made up of quickly trained civilians and they where lead (at the regimental and brigade levels) by civilians.
The Prussian army was made up of well trained conscripts that served for 3 years lead by professionel ncos and officers.
Thomas Bernstorff Aagaard
I'm going to have to back Thomas aagaard
Okay since it makes no further sense for me, the Prussian railroad system of 1848 was in its childhood (Source: Borsig (leading locomutove builder); Biography)
@Plans: He was ordered to make a plan for a campaign against denmark in 1862 (i believe) and since the Prussians had some observers watching the ACW, like Justus Scheibert, they definitely learned from it. Plus he created the term "System der Aushilfen" like system of improvements since his famous colleague made the term "no plan survives the initial enemy contact" known, so the term plan must be used carefully
@Auftragstaktik: as a former German soldier i can agree, but thats nothing new...
but what are we discussing again ? quick moving napoleon, prussian plans, not so deadly acw weaponry with no deceive battles ?
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" ...it appears the Virginia Military Institute will be heard from today."
- Iced EarthWith virtue as our beacon. Our cause is charged as treason, Battle worn and starving. Through the hell of war we'll keep marching. The birth of our new nation
"Prussian railroad system of 1848 was in its childhood"
Yes it was. But it was still used to move troops so that was not something the americans "invented".
What we are speaking about?
The fact that the filmclips have a number of myth that are mentioned very often, but are simply not correct.
The rifle musket was not a new weapon by 1861 and was already obsolete. So yes the rifle muskets where better than what the americans used in earlier wars, but not better than what was the standard for the European armies.
He is lying when he insist that it was.. or simply ignorant of non us military history.
Breach loading weapons was also not new...
(the repeating firearms was, but as he say, their numbers was rather limited)
At the end of the small arms clip he insist that the rifle muskets made the civil war the deadliest war of its time...
If he is talking deadly as pure numbers, then again he should read something about non us historie and look at the Taiping Rebellion where we are are talking millions of dead.
If he mean deadliest in rates, so % of the men engaged then it was also no worse than the Napoleonic wars.
And if better weapons result in higher rates, then why is that not the case with the later wars I mention?
The rifle musket was not the reason for the huge casualties and the civil war was not worse than earlier wars.
Iam am tired of american historians and documentary films that clearly got no knowledge about non US military history and so love to talk about the civil war had the first use of this and the first use of that. (railroads, ironclads, rifled muskets, breachloaders, ballons, trenched, mines... are all thing I hears said in some acw documentary was first used during the acw... but where that is not the case)
The civil war did have its "Firsts" and it is a very interesting war... no reason to do the mythmaking... it don't need it.
So yes, I like the clips from Civil war Trust... But there are no replacement for reading a lot of books about both the civil war and other military history.
Thomas Bernstorff Aagaard
" ...it appears the Virginia Military Institute will be heard from today."
- Iced EarthWith virtue as our beacon. Our cause is charged as treason, Battle worn and starving. Through the hell of war we'll keep marching. The birth of our new nation
Good lord can you people just watch the videos and no go into a salty attack on one and other