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Napoleonic tactics worked fairly well in the 19th century. Mixed results in mid to late-19th.
It’s when they tried to apply them to WW1 that the body counts got ridiculous.
Eh. I'm still convinced it could have been better, and resulted in less death.
After watching scenes from The Patriot, I was thinking ”why not kneel, or go prone!?”
But no, let's just stand up right and risk getting hit in the head by a cannonball.
You couldn't easily reload one of those bad boys while prone.
The moment breach loaders became available Prussia used them to absolutely destroy Austria-Hungary and their muzzle loaders in battle.
This shows that the soldiers back then where limited by technology not their intellect.