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Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski: The Lives of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Polish Officers

Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski: The Lives of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Polish Officers

Paperback

Military BiographiesPolish HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 1717318010
ISBN13: 9781717318015
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 23 2018
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizeable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. Few sword masters were to find their way to North America in time for the war, and the typical American musket was a fair hunting weapon rather than a military one. Even the foot soldier knew little of European military discipline.

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