Useful revision sheet for the weaponry topic focusing on specific statistics particularly useful for measuring impact. These tables are really useful for writing A* essays and revision as the facts can be all in front of you, and cover the Revolutionary wars until to WW2.
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Weapon War Speed Distance Other issues Other benefits
Musket bayonet Rev + Nap • Very slow reload and • Often misfired due to • Had to stand up to
(breach loading) fire non standardisation in reload
ammo and arms • Massed volleys (all fire
at once) easy targets
• Flintlock ignition 20%
misfire rate due to
damp or wind
Artillery- Rev + Nap • Rate of fire improved- • The range of fire used at • Still very hevy requiring • As a result of Gribeaul’s
Gribeaul style cannons grouped in Vamy in 1792 persuaded a team of people reforms in 1970 (before
1970 batteries Prussians to withdraw both wars)
from French soil • Lighter by 1/3 out of any
other artilary
• standardised parts (means
easy to mend and more
accurate ammo)
Musket- CRI (only • Accurate rage of fire of • • More reliable in all
Percussion cap British) around 600 yards weathers
ignition 1807 ACW • Kill up to 1000 yards • Misfire rate reduced to
• 5x further than old due almost 0
to concentrated
firepower
Ironclad boats ACW • • • Battle of ironclad
• Union USS monitor, on first
day initial victory for
confederacy who was first
idia.
, Rifleling and CRI, ACW • Easily dropped down • Same as PC • Only redily avalible in • Tactical advantage to those
Mini-bullet speeding up loading 1863, so at start of ACW defending, the spade also
1855 prosses most were muskets becoming an important
• several rounds could • More bullets required weapon
fire before use of (19 milliom fired in • In ACW this high defending
bayonet (more kills) may 1864 in north success rate can account
vigina for 90% of wounds caused
• ‘hammering matches’
heavy casualties 50% day
three of pickets charge
(turning point of war as
never recovered physically
or psychologically.
• Reduced role of calvary
Artillery- breach CRI F-A • British did change some • Not widely used and • Prussian, rifled
loading of their as it resulted in developments held breackloading artillery
greater range and back by coasts and made in Krupp were
accuracy in the unwillingness to superior to French
bombardment of reequip who armies cannons, allowing them to
Sevastopol • Also due to rifle destroy French artillery
developments if armies • Determined outcome of
moved artillery in close Metz and Sudan – mass
range likely to be artilary bombardmust
gunned down surrounding french
• WOU turning point in
weapons from rifles to
artillery
French rifled WOU, F-A • Range was 3500 yards • Determined most battles,
cannon 1500y further than eventually lead to win
‘napolean’ Austrians
Drysse-needle WOU, A-P • Loaded 4-5x quicker • Loaded from lying down
gun (breech than muzzle loading
loading rifle)
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