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b_b  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ken Burns The Civil War (The Cause) 1861 - Episode 1

Not to mention the introduction of the Gatling gun. It's been written many times that the general staffs of the European militaries would have been well served to study the US civil war in much greater detail than they apparently did. A bayonet charge at Gettysburg? Disaster. A bayonet charge at the Marne? Fucking suicide. Yet they still tried. I guess they felt they had to do something, and the tank wasn't deployed until the latter years of the war.