History A-Level
Railways and telegraphs in mobilisation and command
What Railways and telegraphs in mobilisation and command means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Used by the Prussian general staff to mobilise and concentrate forces rapidly, and by Grant alongside rifled muskets in his campaigns.
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