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Ever since the introduction of breechloaders, there had been a growing realization that the days of close-order infantry assault were coming to an end. For a time, up to the turn of the 19th century, armies tried to circumvent the problem by moving into range in dispersed formations and charging only the last metres, as the French did in the Second Italian War of Independence (1859), the ...
German stormtroopers haul a cut-down Russian 76.2mm M1902 field gun across no man's land. Prevailing tactics in World War I championed personal marksmanship with the full-length bolt-action rifle, the standard issue firearm for infantry on all sides of the war. However, when fighting in trenches, the narrow, claustrophobic passages made full ...
The Companion cavalry of Alexander the Great (356-326 BC) are described as being the first example of shock cavalry being used in Europe. [1]During the Paraguayan War (1864–1870), in which Paraguay fought against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, the Paraguayans deployed shock troops (composed of a mixture of dismounted cavalry and fit men who could row and swim) armed with sabres, cutlasses ...
Arditi (from the Italian verb ardire, 'to dare', and translates as "The Daring [Ones]") was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I.They and the opposing German Stormtroopers were the first modern shock troops, and they have been called "the most feared corps by opposing armies".
Blue and red lines: Eastern Front in 1916. Brusilov offensive takes place in lower right corner. The Brusilov offensive (Russian: Брусиловский прорыв Brusilovskiĭ proryv, literally: "Brusilov's breakthrough"), also known as the June advance, [20] or Battle of Galicia-Volhynia, [21] of June to September 1916 was the Russian Empire's greatest feat of arms during World War I ...
The conduct of war, and therefore of mobilization as well, in the future is the task of the SA." [31] Blomberg and von Reichenau began to conspire with Göring and Himmler against Röhm and the SA. Himmler asked Reinhard Heydrich to assemble a dossier on Röhm. Heydrich recognized that for the SS to gain full national power, the SA had to be ...
Shock Troop (German title:Stoßtrupp 1917) is a 1934 German war film written and directed by Hans Zöberlein , and starring Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, Beppo Brem and Max Zankl. [1] It tells the story of German stormtroopers surrounded by French forces during the Second Battle of the Aisne in the First World War and later fighting the British in ...
The 118th (North Waterloo) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. In the early months of the war, Canadians rushed to enlist for various reasons - patriotism, adventure, and to oppose German hostility. Battalions were quickly filled and local communities were proud of their enlisted men.