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To: TimF who wrote (16896)	1/23/2007 2:32:40 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

"...the more accuracy and firepower increased the more such formations disappeared." The reason those formations disappeared is two words: Gatling Gun. You're right. In all of history up until the Civil War, the most successful militaries were those able to form and maintain massed units, whether they were Zulus, Romans, or Napoleon's army. Notwithstanding that all were eventually defeated by dispersed units who didn't follow the "gentlemanly rules of warfare."