For the North, the Federal Arms Reserve held 437,000 weapons witch was thought to be enough for the Union. Soon each side found out that getting weapons could be a harder task than they thought. There were many different types of weapons used. Standard guns for both sides included the .54 caliber and the .58 caliber rifles. “Pocket pistols” were also common for people like generals and captains and were usually used in the event of an emergency.
Eddie Soto Period 3 5/22/11 The Tommy gun The Tommy gun was invented by a guy named John Taliaferro Thompson. Upon commissioning, he entered the army in the Artillery, later transferring to the Ordnance Department in 1890. During the Spanish-American War he distinguished himself when he directed the supply of munitions at a time of near chaos in the Army's ordnance. The Thompson was involved in the testing and adoption of the Springfield rifle. He became famous for tests he conducted that resulted in adoption of the AS caliber as the official U.S. Army handgun.
One of the weapons that were invented during the Great War was the machine gun in 1914. The first machine guns usually positioned on a flat tripod, would entail a gun crew of four to six operators. They could fire four hundred to six hundred small-caliber rounds each minute. The problem was that these early machine guns would rapidly overheat. Without the aid of cooling mechanisms they would consequently, fire in short rather than sustained bursts.
I personally believe in the latter. Some would say that, due to the fact that Russell was Britain’s first “real” war reporter, he was able to be brutally honest about the war for a certain period of time, leading up to November 25th 1954, when he was instructed by the editor of the times, John Delane, to concentrate an assault upon Lord Raglan. Aside from this, however, Russell’s brutally honest reports helped to expose the failures of the war, and as a result, public opinions towards the war hit a new low. Due to these reports, which even reached Queen Victoria, photographer, Fenton, was sent to the Crimea in order to portray the war in contrast to the harsh criticisms within Russell’s articles. Due to this, I do not believe that any of Fenton’s pictures can be used as an accurate reportage of the Crimean war, although he did have a good reputation as a photographer, even photographing Queen Victoria and her family at times.
However, while the French were the first to use a gas against an enemy, the Germans had been giving a great deal of thought to the use of poison gas as a way of defeating enemy. The First World War One has invented new weapons to support the front and improve the ability of killing the enemies. Among these, poison gas may be the most terrible fear of all the soldiers. It could be used on the trenches even if no attack was going on. The gas cylinders were simply placed on the front line and in front of the enemy.
The Battle of Cantigny The battle of Cantigny was a battle between the U.S. 1st division and the German 82nd Reserve Division. It only lasted for two days (May 28-30, 1918), but it was still a very important battle for the U.S. troops. It was the first U.S. offensive and victory made by the AEF, or the American Expeditionary Forces. The battle started when the division was ordered to take over Cantigny, a village in France, North of Paris, near Man Didier in the Somme Region, to test its offensive capabilities. The Americans suffered weeks of heavy artillery and gas from the Germans.
In 1941 it defeated the Yugoslav and Greek armies, but did not have the needed weapons for mobile warfare. In 1941 it also defeated the huge Russian army all the way to Moscow, but because of the logistic neglect it was defeated by Russia's endless size and extreme weather, (2world). This demonstrates the strength of the German military mainly through the fact that the Germans were the first to use this effective style of warfare. It validates how the Germans could hit hard, and fast making the use of
Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) played a significant role in the battle of Gravenstafel. The 1st Canadian Division consisted of 30,000 amateur soldiers, who were badly trained in Valcartier Camp in Quebec and poorly equipped with Ross Rifle, Sam Hughes the minister of militia’s favourite weapon (Dancocks 5). On April 17th, 1915, the Canadian troops were sent to the salient of Ypres to reinforce the Allied Forces (Cassar 54). However, Canadians did not expect a new deadly weapon introduced by Germany. The first warfare and the first use of gas attack were shown in the battle of Gravenstafel.
B. Technology and the Trenches Much of nineteenth-century warfare had been predicated on speed and maneuverability, but the First World War on the western front almost immediately was limited to the trenches that ran from the English Channel to the Swiss border. Machine guns, poison gas, and heavy artillery made short work of cavalry and massive frontal assaults by the infantry. As traditional methods of warfare failed, leaders turned to new technology to break the deadlock—tanks,
On Raven Hill The exceptional speed with which Germany defeated France in 1940 sent shock waves around the world. The first-rate military power had been completely defeated in just six weeks. The French Army relied on the doctrine and weapons used during World War I, while the German Army was confident in the new weapons and training they had learned. The French created a line they thought would be impenetrable and called it The Maginot Line. The Maginot Line defenses were involved in battle to protect France’s borders with Germany.