DESTRUCTIVE AND FORMIDABLE British Infantry Firepower, 1642-1765

In simple, sturdy, succinct prose Blackmore carefully explains how British military firepower evolved from using matchlocks and pikes in the English Civil War to muskets and bayonets in the Seven Years War. This seminal work contains details about firing methods, drills, and tactics found nowhere else; the author consulted numerous military manuals of the period as well as carefully reviewing eyewitness accounts.