Question:Warfare after musket age?

Don Grey

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Im very curios to know how warfare was fought when catraidge firearms were invented. All the way up to and including ww1 except for the trench wars .Though i dont know how they fought other then in trenches in ww1 either. Because all i now about the warfare of the time was trench warfare and bombarding positions/trenches which shit lots of artilary fire.

I have no clue as how wars were fought did they still fight in file and rank similer to the musket age? Did they all lay on there stomachs as soon as they saw the enemy and fire from that position? I can understand fighting in the cities but what happend when they met on open field if they ever did? Did they stand in lines and fire at the enemy and keep moving forward? Did they rush/charge the enemy even when there wasnt any trenches? How did they use cavalry? Were sabers/lancers/swords still usefull? If so how were they used? How exactly was rifle infantrymen, cavalry and artilary utilised?

If some one can just detail how they were fought. Also if they have pictures videos etc how they were fought i would be intrested to look at all of them. Because after the musket age and before the massive trench warfares of ww1 the style stratagies and tacktics of warfare in everything in between is a complet and utter blank to me.
 
Im very curios to know how warfare was fought when catraidge firearms were invented. All the way up to and including ww1 except for the trench wars .Though i dont know how they fought other then in trenches in ww1 either. Because all i now about the warfare of the time was trench warfare and bombarding positions/trenches which shit lots of artilary fire.

I have no clue as how wars were fought did they still fight in file and rank similer to the musket age? Did they all lay on there stomachs as soon as they saw the enemy and fire from that position? I can understand fighting in the cities but what happend when they met on open field if they ever did? Did they stand in lines and fire at the enemy and keep moving forward? Did they rush/charge the enemy even when there wasnt any trenches? How did they use cavalry? Were sabers/lancers/swords still usefull? If so how were they used? How exactly was rifle infantrymen, cavalry and artilary utilised?

If some one can just detail how they were fought. Also if they have pictures videos etc how they were fought i would be intrested to look at all of them. Because after the musket age and before the massive trench warfares of ww1 the style stratagies and tacktics of warfare in everything in between is a complet and utter blank to me.

You pretty much nailed formal late 17th-18th century-pre-Napoleonic warfare. Infantry lines were paramount, and cavalry was used to intercept artillery and inflict devastating charges. Artillery was used not only in breaking fortifications, cannon were also deployed to inflict serious casualties.
 
The Crimean war saw the rifled musket change main infantry tactics to become much more skirmish and fire-and-manouvre-related. In the US civil war, the sides marched like before on lines and columns and used massed fire.

Study the warfare of the Danish-German war of 1848, the Hungarian revolution, the Prussian-Austrian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 to get an idea of how warfare developed among modern armies.
 
In the US civil war, the sides marched like before on lines and columns and used massed fire.

The first battles they did that, like at First Bull Run (or First Manassas if you sympathize with the Confederates). By 1863-64, you're going to see more and more of an early version of World War I, at least as far as the defense holing up behind light fortifications while the attackers still used frontal assaults, such as at Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, and Franklin.
 
I'd suggest watching Zulu and perhaps Zulu Dawn. They might not be entirely accurate but they give you a wonderful feel for this strange period after the invention of the rifled cartridge firearm but before the end of bright uniforms and volley fire.
 
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