Looks at the first major victory won by the reformed army of the
Dutch Republic, the first recognisably modern European army, retrained
to use the new concept of ‘drill’, which generally made it easier to
command, respond quicker to commands, helped keep musketry accurate and
controlled for longer, and even improved the resilience of drilled
units. Contains an excellent account of those reforms – how they worked
and the advantages they gave the Dutch, as well as the campaign and
the battle itself, along with the aftermath in which any benefits from
the Dutch victory were largely squandered
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