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Fundamentals of military revolution

Jan 16, 2022
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Antoine Favreau was a young cuirassier at Waterloo in 1815, taking part in one of the grandest cavalry defeats of all time, when a cannonball killed him instantly. Favreau could not have imagined the internet, or Twitter, or that two centuries after his death a Turkish academic would accidentally send a viral tweet about his cuirass (breastplate).

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