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Samurai pre-Tanagishima Tokitaka and Medieval English Archers were pretty comparable: a whole shitload of "this is going to suck" got sent downrange in the form of 3ft long arrows in armour piercing clouds addressed "to whom it may concern" with up to a 1/4 of a mile away being where the arrows...

Not really. A Japanese Yumi and English Longbow are are about the same size: ~6'6" in length and both need arrows ~3' long. A Yumi is asymetrical and can be used while riding a horse. A longbow is symetrical and not usable while in the saddle.

Your username is @History Learner. If you'd like to learn a little bit about the Lightning Brigade go look up Captain Eli Lilly. He was a pharmacist from Indianapolis.

Those are the numbers for the ones made after the Civil War ended. Not the numbers for the ones produced and delivered during it.

https://www.historynet.com/a-new-kind-of-firepower/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAfter%20that%2C%E2%80%9D%20Spencer%20said,for%20the%20Union%20war%20effort ~106,000 were made during the US Civil War. There's also the Sharp's single shot breech loading rifle and the Henry fifteen shot repeating - which...

Five mounted infantry regiments plus an artillery battery: 92nd Illinois, 98th Illinois, 123rd Illinois, 17th Indiana, 72nd Indiana, and the 18th Indiana Independant Battery. A brigade with five regiments and attached artillery was overstrength before you get to the breech loading rifles. The...

Five regiments, not four and you are correct about the "never even remotely near full strength" part because US and CS units were usually half-strength or less on a good day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Brigade 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps. It's also known as the "Hatchet Brigade" and was basically doing Biltzkrieg before Panzers were even invented. You don't know jack shit about history.

You're joking. Please tell me you're joking. Approximately 200,000 Spencers were made and Wilder's "Lightning Brigade" would have needed at least 5,000 when at full strength.

My great-great-great grandfather was part of the 17th Indiana. That regiment had breech-loading magazine-fed seven shot Spencers and was part of John T. Wilder's "Lightning Brigade". Too expensive is bullshit because Wilder basically told Congress "If you won't pay for it I can and I will".

The British stopped making the breech-loading Armstrong guns in 1864 because they had too many flaws. Meanwhile the USN was mounting 11+" Dalghren guns in armoured turrets on barely seaworthy steam-powered iron rafts like USS Monitor and restricting them to solid shot and less than full powder...

Lee never managed to pull that off. In the big battles the Confederate casualty numbers - while usually lower than the Union tally - were awful. Confederate casualties with Lee in charge as a percentage: The Seven Days: ~20% Antietam: ~25% Gettysburg: ~33% The Overland Campaign: ~55%

Rail transport in the US is almost exclusively used for freight outside of urban areas because the Interstates, US numbered highways, and state highways can get you to practically any town in the lower 48 on a paved route which does not require paying a toll to use. The main reason the US still...

Yes, they did do that. The equivalent of Sophia, Bulgaria to London, England by car is only half of NY to LA and can be done by car by an American who only leaves an Interstate Highway to buy gas and/or use a toilet.

Maybe ... Bulgaria - where you say you're from - is actually smaller than Ohio and only slightly larger than Virginia. The Indianapolis metro area I live in is about half the size of Belgium in terms of area. Texas is larger than France.

Yes, it is. However, if you want to get a ship from Europe to somewhere west of Lake Ontario using it you have to get it past this: EDIT: If a European sailor wishes to make a port call in Wheeling, WV they theoretically can ... by sailing through parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas...

Hudson's Bay to the Great Lakes would have meant navigating the Arctic and then traversing several hundred miles of wilderness before you even get to the US-Canada border. The other one you mentioned is the St. Lawrence River and is how the Great Lakes drain into the Atlantic. Europeans don't...

From the Atlantic without using an American owned canal - assuming it would even fit - or disassembling it to get it over a waterfall in the 1860s? No. You'd have to build it on one of the Great Lakes in Canada and Candians back then were very pro-Union to the tune of ~40,000 volunteers. That...

Torching New York, Philadelphia, and Boston - while painful - probably isn't enough to force an American capitulation. They'd need to start torching Great Lakes cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Green Bay, and Milwaukee or something important in the interior a ship can't...

It'd basically be a variation of the US government of the day that's highly allergic to imposing taxes and spending money. The Confederate Constitution included clauses which said that the post office must be profitable and prohibiting the allocation of funds for internal infrastructure...