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Did Spanish missions block exploration of South America?
According to The river sea : the Amazon in history, myth, and legend, page 112,
In any study of these wild regions [of South America], one is constantly astounded, even moved, regardless of one's ...
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Were there any specific laws/treaties enshrining the Principle of Distinction in the 18th century?
Hathaway and Shapiro (2017):
By the middle of the eighteenth century, European armies had come to recognize a “Principle of Distinction,” the doctrine central to modern humanitarian law, which ...
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How did steppe-nomad military tactics change in response to widespread firearms in the 18th/19th centuries?
Please forgive my ignorance of the cultures extant in the Eurasian steppe at this time, but I was wondering how the military tactics of steppe-cultures changed in response to the massed musket tactics ...
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Was there a military practice of reloading while marching/running, in Europe or America during the 18th and 19th centuries?
This reenactor does a fine job of reloading a flintlock rifle while running. He is attempting to recreate something from the Indian Wars in America, in the 1770s. My question is about the historical ...
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How accurate was rocket artillery in the 18th and 19th centuries?
In the 1700s and 1800s, how accurate was rocket artillery in Europe (or Asia, if you prefer to speak of her)? Its accuracy is frequently made a joke, that rockets couldn't be relied on to hit their ...
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Why did the line infantry not use shields in the 18th century?
Why did soldiers in the line infantry in the 18th century not used shield as protection against the fire from the other line infantry ?
I have seen that line infantry was used this way where the one ...
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Was the 18th century Russian peasant braver; or simply more afraid of Cossacks?
Frederick the Great famously noted after the Battle of Zorndorf that "It's easier to kill the Russians than to win over them."
For that same battle the Russian commander (William Fermor) is noted as ...
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