![]() The Gatling gun, although used in only a limited fashion, was a reliable machine gun mounted on wheels due to its weight. During the American Civil War, this Napoléonic approach, backed by strategically placed artillery, brought casualties so high that to this day they surpass all the deaths of the forces of the United States combined in wars before or since. ![]() ![]() They imagined massed armies lining up opposite each other, marching forward under the orders of their superiors, firing on the enemy across a neat and convenient field. The minds of the military leaders remained rooted in the nineteenth century even as the twentieth century came closer. For four decades, the Germans grew stronger and the French thought of revenge and watched their former foe to the north warily. When the Great War began in August of 1914, European armies had not gone to war on the continent since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. ![]()
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