The Industrial Age 1500 - 1700 Mindmap
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- Created on: 16-11-18 13:51
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- The Industrial Age 1700-1900
- Civilians Experience
- Recruitment and Conscription
- Still recruited in war
- Women recruited in war abroad
- Nurse in front line
- Taxes
- Increase in tax - pay for larger/ equip army
- Indirect tax - Napolean war popular - good = horse, hat,etc
- Income tax unpopular - abolsihed 1816
- ( Report of War)
- Start perioid - communication limited
- Electric Telegraph allowed fatser communnication
- Telegraph invented - new tech
- Recruitment and Conscription
- Recruitment
- Changes to British Army
- 1700 soldiers professional
- Since 1660 - British Army became permenant standing army
- Size of army grew gradually
- 1700 soldiers professional
- Recruiting Soldiers
- New recriuitment swore on oath.
- Recruited 21yrs - lifetime
- Some men kidnapped - forced to serve
- The Militia (defence group)
- Provide soilder - Parliement permission
- 1809 - recriutment easier and common
- 100,000 men between 1805 - 1815
- Drill training - infantry
- purchase system - cavalry
- New recriuitment swore on oath.
- Desertion
- Huge issue
- Offence issued - punished by death
- 1803 - 1812 - 53,000 desrted
- Changes to British Army
- Composition Army
- Cavalry
- Infantry the majority
- Musketter & riflemen
- Artillery increased in army
- Weapons
- Improved performance of gun
- Increase rate, range, accuracy
- Artillery used rifled barrel - fire 10km
- First machine gun invented
- Smokeless powder - easier to see battle field 1880s
- Musket (fintlock)
- Swords pointy and long
- Consequence of change weapons
- Impact slowed by government- spent less money on tech
- After 1870 - threat of prussia pressured gov to increase spending
- Improved performance of gun
- Civilians Experience
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