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Post by hornet32 on Jul 5, 2014 14:52:23 GMT -5
Napoleon is given a lot of credit for bringing modern warfare tactics to 18th and 19th centuries in an age when armies stood still and fired at each other , Napoleon brought maneuver into play and did quite well until he decided to go to Russia , this was a bad move , he took with him some 800,000 men and returned with a 10th of that number , however unlike the Germans of a later time he did reach Moscow and put the torch to it , his next bad move was Waterloo , though if he had paid more attention to what was going on he might of made a win out of it .
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Post by Swampy on Jul 5, 2014 21:49:32 GMT -5
Was he the first person to do that? What about Alexander the Great or Hannibal? Or the Mongols?
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 5, 2014 23:00:48 GMT -5
Alex and the Mongolian mob were great tacticians , I'm referring to later day with guns and cannons and a whole different type of tactics .
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Post by Sir John on Jul 6, 2014 0:04:26 GMT -5
The Duke of Wellington, then retired, heard my wife's ancestors court case in 1830. He was charged with 'Machine Breaking'.
Samuel M was working as a stonemason when he decided to assist his farm labourer mate in the 'Swing Riots' in Hampshire. The Duke gave them both 7 years for their trouble. Samuel thrived in Australia and became VERY rich.
SJ
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