Firepower Beats Armor Over Time

Fundamentals of military revolution

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).