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Urban warfare is seen as a fairly modern concept, house to house fighting, smoke grenades and air strikes but where their other major instances of urban fighting prior to the rise of modern firearms?

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An old WW2 vet I met told me he was captured during the early fighting in belgium(1940) as the Germans were able to advance because the grenades he was throwing kept failing to detonate, was this a common issue or did him and his squad simply get a bad batch?

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During the nine years war in Ireland(1593-1603) the Irish infantry was far more developed than the cavalry, which fought in a medieval fashion. Did other armies in Europe have similar issues with one arm rapidly outpacing the other in technology and tactics?

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Indirect artillery fire is the modern day standard, but what is the history of the practice? And its earliest uses?

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From Leningrad to Alesia and Yorktown to Nagashima siege warfare has always been around and constant but what where 'game-changing' sieges?

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European siege warfare is fairly well known but how were castles and cities besieged during the same time frame in China?

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Urban warfare is seen as a fairly modern concept, house to house fighting, smoke grenades and air strikes but where their other major instances of urban fighting prior to the rise of modern firearms?	186	AskHistorians
An old WW2 vet I met told me he was captured during the early fighting in belgium(1940) as the Germans were able to advance because the grenades he was throwing kept failing to detonate, was this a common issue or did him and his squad simply get a bad batch?	43	AskHistorians
During the nine years war in Ireland(1593-1603) the Irish infantry was far more developed than the cavalry, which fought in a medieval fashion. Did other armies in Europe have similar issues with one arm rapidly outpacing the other in technology and tactics?	15	AskHistorians
Indirect artillery fire is the modern day standard, but what is the history of the practice? And its earliest uses?	6	AskHistorians
From Leningrad to Alesia and Yorktown to Nagashima siege warfare has always been around and constant but what where 'game-changing' sieges?	2	AskHistorians
European siege warfare is fairly well known but how were castles and cities besieged during the same time frame in China?	1	AskHistorians