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at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift,
field gun, which is capable of
demonstrates new technology,
Prussia defeats France in
The Russo-Japanese War
recoil-operated machine-gun
The Second Boer War is
forerunner of the machine-
The Gatling gun, the 1870–71 British soldiers defeat Zulus Hiram Maxim makes the first France introduces the 75mm 1899–1902 1904–05 Britain launches the
first Dreadnought-
1866 gun, is adopted by the US Army the Franco-Prussian War 1879 in South Africa, aided by the 1883 1897 firing 15 rounds per minute fought in southern Africa including field telephones 1906 class battleship
Martini-Henry rifle
and barbed wire
1911
1898
1867
1871
1880s
1905
c.1900
The Meiji Restoration begins in The British Army adopts the Armies adopt bolt-action A smokeless propellant An Anglo-Egyptian army defeats to enter service with The Imperial Japanese Navy defeats Italian aircraft drop bombs in a war 1914
Submarines begin
1886
a Russian fleet at Tsushima,
repeater rifles as their
single-shot, breech-loading,
against Turkey in Libya—the
Japan, during which Japan
the Sudanese Mahdists at
modernizes its armed forces
first use of aircraft in war
Martini-Henry rifle
replaces gunpowder
Omdurman using Maxim guns
the world’s navies
aided by the use of radio
standard infantry weapon
THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN—1898 THE BOER WAR—1880–1902 THE BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA—1905