History GCSE
Logistics and supply
What Logistics and supply means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Logistics and supply
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The movement of armies and supplies, revolutionised by steam-powered transport, with steamships for strategic troop movement and railways improving local supply lines.
Topics that use Logistics and supply
- Option 12: c1700–c1900: Warfare and British society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - 1 The nature of warfare (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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