Eighteenth-century military reforms quadrupled army size and tripled firing rates

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Only in the later eighteenth century, however, were simultaneous breakthroughs made in drill, signalling and command, embodying the new thought about what an army was and how it could be created, that resulted in armies doubling their speed of manoeuvre, tripling their firing rate, and quadrupling their manageable size. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 649