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The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know

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The Military Mindset

There were certainly innovations. And there were congreve rockets, which the british royal artillery, i think it was experimented with. The french developed a telegraph, which wasn't a modern day electronic un morse coe tigt telegraph but rather a system of semaphore signals from the frontiers to paris in order to spread news about what's happening on the frontiers quickly. There were even experiments with submarines. People attempted to concrate submarine warfare for the first time.

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