2. Civil War
Rifled Muskets
Allowed bullet to shoot three times further
Reloaded faster then rifle
Had bayonette, rarley used however.
Weaponary Changed Tactics Did Not
No improvments in communcation
Stragegy did not change
Very grusome war, tremendious amount of casulites
3. Iron Clads
- heavily armored, steam
powered warships, led directly to
the warships of today.
-first ironclads were built by the
-most famous in civil war was French in the Crimean War in
the casemate ironclad (built to 1850, used to attack enemy forts
protect the guns and crew from on land
enemy)
-most famous ironclad battle was
-Southern ironclads were usually between the Monitor and the
called rams because they were Virginia March 9,, 1862
built with strong, sharp bows that -smaller, river boat styled
would ram into and sink enemy ironclads were used on the
ships Mississippi River in the Civil War
-a monitor ironclad had a small
number of heavy guns and was
a low freeboard ship, which
means the deck was very close
to the water
7. Franco Prussian War
Chassepote Rifle
Effective Range of 1,500 yards
8-15 rounds per minute
French Cavalry
Used heavy cavalry, instead of light cavalry
Prussian Cavalry
Used Cavalry for skirmishing and screening
Railway
French did not use railways, prussians had an organized
system during the war
10. Radiography
Radiographs, or x-
rays, were first
introduced into
warfare by the US
revolutionized the
diagnosis of war
injuries
11. Colt Model 1895 Machine Gun
Either carried on Tripods
by ground units or
stationed on warships in
naval battles
Fired less than 400
rounds a minute
Simple, light, easy to
handle
12. Spanish Mauser
-Standard weapon Spaniards used in battle
-superior to the springfield trapdoor rifle which was used by
majority of American forces