Thursday, March 5, 2009

Index Card #21

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00422/weapons.html

Weapons used in the civil war included bayonets (which were not incredibly useful) of the 250,000+ soldiers wounded in the civil war, only 900 or so were injured or killed by a bayonet. WWI was one of the first experiments with new tactics like poison gas and tabun grenades and the machine guns were complicated to operate.

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