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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Prussian Military
- Message-ID: <Bzs8po.LBK@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Indiana University
- References: <Bz9Ez9.6Ix@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BzEz50.Ezs@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Bzo8DD.BJ9@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:22:36 GMT
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- From ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- In article <Bzo8DD.BJ9@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Gary Coffman <emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu> writes:
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- >The square was perfected by the Romans. With the advent of guns, the
- >square became less useful as a defensive formation. Even if the enemy
- >missed you, he was likely to hit your opposite number in the back.
- >That's one reason the line tactic was developed, to reduce the depth
- >of the target for musket fire and to allow all muskets to be mass
- >fired at the same target.
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- By the time of Napoleon the Square had become the de facto way to
- deal with cavalry. Apparently horses refused to charge presented
- bayonets, and you couldn't outflank a square.
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- Ney's Cuirassiers apparently came to grief at Waterloo against a
- network of squares arranged in echelon.
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- The only type of cavalry capable of dealing with squares were Lan-
- cers, whose long reach allowed them to attack without running their
- horses onto bayonets.
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