I watched a documentary on ww1 stating that the most successful commanders in Eastern Europe studied battle tactics of the US civil war. It was said to be the first major war of the modern era
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Yet, Napoleonic thinking still dominated the WWI battlefields, particularly the Somme.
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Lee worshipped Napoleon. Grant thought he was obsolete.
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Reading on Waterloo. Quite a bit of that fighting was done by advanced skirmishers, Of course most of those guys were using smoothbores, but accuracy wasn't so important when you're shooting into infantry massed into squares.
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I did not know this!
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