Old Warfare Facts

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In the Seven Years War the lowest estimate of casualties is 900,000 and other sources go as high as 1.4 million. This war was between Prussia and an alliance of France, Austria, and Russia. The French and British also fought mostly at sea in this same time period (1756-1763), although, they were fighting an almost completely different war between each other. A Prussian commander named Frederick the Great said this, "It's easier to kill these Russians that it is to defeat them," after the battle of Zorndorf (25 August 1785)
P.S. I am unsure on all the dates seeing as my book is a little unclear.

 

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This next one will be a list of things so I will not put them in one statement.
PRIMARY INFANTRY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 1 of 7
3000 BCE-500 CE
(hand held contact weapons) Throwing sticks and clubs, Swords and daggers.
(hand held projectile weapons)Slingshots and javelins, Bow and arrow or pellet.
(Artillery) Mounted crossbows, Catapult and torsion artillery.
(Position weapons) Caltrops, Spiked pits, wooden obstacles.

 

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PRIMARY INFANTRY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 2 of 7
500-1500
(hand held contact weapons) Swords and daggers, clubs, maces, pole-arms, axes, war hammers, staffs, flails.
(hand held projectile weapons) Longbow, crossbow, hand cannon, matchlock gun.
(Artillery) Breech and muzzle loading cannon, torsion artillery.
(Position weapons) Caltrops, spiked pits, wooden obstacles.

 

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PRIMARY INFANTRY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 3 of 7
1500-1750
(hand held contact weapons) Swords and daggers, maces, pole-arms, lances.
(hand held projectile weapons) Smoothbore musket, bows, crossbows.
(Artillery) Muzzle loaded wheel cannon, mortars, rockets, gunpowder grenades.
(Position weapons) Caltrops, spiked pits.

 

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PRIMARY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 4 of 7
1750-1830
(hand held contact weapons) Swords and daggers, pole-arms, lances, bayonets.
(hand held projectile weapons) Muzzle-loading smoothbore and rifled muskets, muzzle loading rifles, early revolvers.
(Artillery) Muzzle-loading wheeled cannons, mortars, rockets, gunpowder grenades.
(Position weapons) Spiked obstacles.

 

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PRIMARY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 5 of 7
1830-1914
(hand held contact weapons) Swords and daggers, bayonets.
(hand held projectile weapons) Muzzle-loading smoothbore and rifled musket, bolt- and lever-action repeating rifles, revolvers, manual than automatic machine guns.
(Artillery) Muzzle loading than breach loading artillery, mortars, rockets, gunpowder grenades.
(position weapons) Spiked obstacles, land mines.

 

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PRIMARY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 6 of 7
1914-1945
(hand held contact weapons) Daggers and bayonets.
(hand held projectile weapons) Bolt-action and self-loading rifles, machine guns, submachine guns, handguns, antitank rifles, antitank rocket launchers, incendiary and antivehicle grenades, flamethrowers.
(Artillery) Antitank, anti-aircraft, field artillery, infantry mortars, vehicle mounted rocket launchers.
(position weapons) Antipersonnel and antivehicle land mines

 

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PRIMARY WEAPONS BY PERIOD 7 of 7
1945-present day
(hand held contact weapons) Bayonets.
(hand held projectile weapons) Assault Rifles, machine-guns, automatic pistols, anti-personnel, incendiary and antivehicle grenades.
(Artillery) Antitank, anti-aircraft and field artillery, recoilless rifles and antitank guns, infantry mortars, antitank guided missile launcher (personnel and vehicle mounted).
(Position Weapons) Antipersonnel and antivehicle land mines, claymore-type mines.

 

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King Andrew II of Hungary had 20,000 knights on the fifth crusade. Each knight had a group of troops that he led making there numbers significantly higher.

 

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A woman ruled over Russia from 1762-1796 and her name was Catherine the Great or Catherine II. She was a good ruler and gained 518,000 square kilometers to Russian territory in her rule.

 

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The first black powder weapons were developed in Ancient China. They were trying to make a flame jet to shoot flames out of a tube at their enemy. To make that design work they required to put pebbles in the barrel to make the flame reach farther, after experimentation they found the pebbles did more damage and did damage from a father distance than a normal flame shooting out. This is when the first firearms were starting to be developed, the first designs would be known as hand cannons and not hand guns.

 

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3,926,000 muskets and other small arms were manufactured in France during Napoleon's rule (1804-1814). Sorry for the wait guys, I got a little behind (to anyone who actually looks at this thread).

 

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Since the Ak-47's first production (1947) there have been over 90,000,000 of them made and there is most likely a lot more in the world now.

 

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The British through military conquest gained 36.6 million square kilometers (14.1 million square miles) in their empire from the late 16th century till the mid 20th century

 

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The Sino-Japanese War resulted in (a low estimate) the death of 15 million Chinese during 1937-1945.

 

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A Chinese weapon that was used against the Mongols was the "Fire Lance", this weapon had a long handle with a spike on the end which could be used to push into the ground for stability or as a weapon to hit incoming soldiers. The other end contained barrels with gun powder inside that when fired would shoot flames out that could potentially do fatal damage if the target was in a close proximity of the weapon. We would know this as an early design of the flamethrower, but actually this is one of the few designs that helped begin the production of firearms.