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    Civil War Essay There are many inventions from the Civil War that we have improved upon and that we still use today. Some of these inventions include hot air balloons, Long-Range Weapons, Warships, torpedoes, and the Gatling Gun. But three inventions from the Civil War that we still use today are railroads, telegraphs, and Long- Range Weapons. Today, though all these have been improved upon, these inventions are still used to help our country grow. Railroads are a form of transportation which

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    1) How did technology affect the course of the war? a. Infantry soldiers carried muskets. Musket could shoot one bullet at a time. A musket and a range of 250 yards, but the effective range was 80 yards. Rifles accurate range was 1,000 yards. In 1850’s it was impossible to use these guns because it took too long to load. Soldiers used a mallet to reload sometimes because the bullet was big. Then in 1848 a French army officer Claude Miniè invented cone-shaped lead bullets. They were fast, easy to

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    Also with the Arquebuse being able to be held with two hands and not having to lit by hand made it way more accurate than earlier guns (14). The Arquebuse also greatly helped to create the musket which had a better more advanced ignition system. The musket first began to be used during the 1400s. Then muskets helped to design the flintlock (14). Also by the mid 1400s people began to develope handguns or pistols. By the 1500s people were able to make pistol effective to about four feet. One bad thing

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    Have you ever known how rifles have evolved through the ages? The rifle known today did not just come up and appear out of nowhere, it has modified and changed a multitude of times for ruffly seven centuries(700 years). The design and modifications to increase distance, accuracy and more have changed so many times, so has the power the gun uses to propel the bullet forwards. The design of the rifle has been changing over time. A flintlock, one of the first rifles, type gun uses a flint powder and

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    In today’s military we think of tactics and strategy in quite a different manner than in the time of Washington. During his time strategy and tactics were not known by the name in fact the term did not even exist, but they were know by thoughts, processes, and rules that were passed down through generations in which leadership waged war. “Until the nineteenth century, war was the sport of kings, and strategy the rules of the game.” (Palmer, 2012, p.3) As we look into the era of George Washington

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    Mamluk military, Ottoman military, and firearms Military, the Mamluks were a professional force recruited as young Turkish, then increasingly as Circassian slaves who endured rigorous training and were disinclined to adopt firearms. The Mamluk’s disinclination appears partly motivated by prior success, as the Mamluks were able to effectively use heavy cavalry with horse archer capabilities to successfully defeat the Crusader armies and vanquish the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut. The Mamluks

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    Bayonet Essay

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    Bayonet- The bayonet was originally a defensive weapon. Infantry standing two or three deep, who adopted a square formation, could defend their position against a cavalry charge. Bayonet charges were rarely attempted until the enemy was retreating. Rifle- A rifle was the weapon that was something that everyman got, it was reasonably cheap to produce, reliable, accurate and easy to carry. British soldiers were issued with the Lee-Enfield 303, while most Germans received a 7.92mm Mauser. Both of the

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    Quaker guns is a deception tactic that was Commonly used during the 18th and 19th Centuries. The english were the first to use In war . It's a big long painted log of wood That looked Like a war cannon to prevent Quaker gun was to prevent violence in War it used as As a sign of nonviolence. It was thought of a religious Group called the Quakers

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    loud, and the third one was extremely loud. I started panicking and so I tied my horses reign to the hitch. I started panicking everyone was riding in their wagon trying to get home, but I stopped to see what was going on in then I see John with a musket and I tell everyone to go home and lock their doors because this wasn’t going to end well. I went up to him and asked him, “what are you doing man, what is wrong with you, why are you doing this?” He replied and said, “I don’t know.” Then I said,

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    Gun Control Essay Gun control is a very hot and controversial topic in the U.S that has been around for years. Some of the population thinks that it shouldn’t be a thing, while the other half strongly disagrees. However, gun control is essential to a progressive and peaceful country. Adults and gun owners should take stricter actions to ban high capacity and automatic rifles, support common sense gun control (such as background checks and making sure the mentally-ill don’t obtain them), and make

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