Destructive & Formidable: British Infantry Firepower, 1642-1756

"Looks at British infantry doctrine . . . from the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century up to just before the American War of Independence." —British Civil Wars Blog

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time, David Blackmore...