Industralisation and Technology
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- Created on: 30-05-18 13:26
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- Industrialisation and technology
- Revolutionary 1792-1802
- Both wars had features of modern warfare – large armies + mobilisation
- Napoleonic 1803-1815
- French workshops at St Etienne Produced 97,000 handguns by 1809 had been under 26,000 under the ancien regime
- Crimean War 1851-1853
- Development of steam engine
- quicker mobilisation
- electric telegraph
- greater impact of public opinion
- mass produced musket rifle
- quicker rate of fire men issued with new lee-enfield rifle
- important in determining outcome
- depsite Russia having over a million men due to the lack of industralisation and railways they where unable to mobilize quickly
- Development of steam engine
- American Civil War 1861-65
- One steam -ship could carry enough supplies for 2 days for 40,000 men and 18,000 horses
- horses still used in the majority
- The North produced 97% of firearms in 1860
- 94% of pigiron
- 90% of its boots
- had twice as much railways as the south
- Had 6 times more factories than the south
- ten times its industrial capacity
- Had 6 times more factories than the south
- had twice as much railways as the south
- 90% of its boots
- 94% of pigiron
- WW1 1914-18
- Despite there being developments in technology General joffree in WW1 said that the "french army returning to its traditions no longer knows any other law than that of the attack"
- Haig Reintroduced the lance in 1909 - the machine gun was created in 1886
- Despite there being significant developments in transport and good railways the schlifflen plan failed due to its inflexibility and over complex planning
- D increase in steel production 3.16 million tons 1890 – 13.15 mil tons 1910
- masks developed to reduced effect of gas.
- Indsutralisation led to chemical warfare and a more destructive nature of warfare as a whole
- Machine guns gave the defender the advantage there was some resistance to new weapons
- introduction of field telephone in WW1
- WW2 1939-45
- Intial improvements on aircraft and tanks
- development of radar
- Enigma machine
- Atomic bomb 1945 hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Wars of Unification
- Prussian industralisation --> quick mobalisation and it being able to supply troops with modern weaponry
- Russo-Japanese War
- Despite being outnumbered Japan with its superior British designed war-ships where able to move its troops quickly to the theater of conflict
- Russia reliant on the 1 line 5000 mile trans-Siberian railway
- Revolutionary 1792-1802
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