er the front row of pikes. Alexander the Great used the strategy a lot allowing him to conquer much of Asia and northwest Africa. The phalanx could also be used for defence as for a while the formation was almost impenetrable. It could not be charged by infantry or cavalry, and the hoplites had large shields and heavy armour to protect from projectiles. It wasn’t until the Roman conquest of Greece that the phalanx was finally bested by Roman legionaries with their mobility and advanced technology. Moving ahead into the Middle Ages with the English longbow. The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of longbow about 1.8 m long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare. English use of longbows was effective against the French during the Hundred Years’ War, most famously at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The Englishmen using the longbow were able to stand a long distance from the French forces where they could shoot powerful volleys of arrows at the advancing enemies. This is what happened at the battle of Agincourt, the English army was 80% longbow men who were able to decimate French cavalry and infantry before they even reached their soldiers allowing them to win the battle of Agincourt. The victory saw the increasing dominance of ranged weapons on the battlefield and the decline of cavalry.

Modern Warfare World War One

World War One was a massive conflict that changed the course of warfare for ever, fought from 1914 to 1918 by the great powers of Europe. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914. This was the immediate cause but there were a series of events which triggered the war. By 1914, the great powers of Europe were divided into two defensive coalitions: the Triple Entente—consisting of France, Russia and Britain—and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. What this meant was that if one country declared war on another, the other countries would also have to enter the conflict because it was in the treaty they agreed. So, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia all their allies were called into the war. Fighting quickly developed into a stalemate on the western front. The war saw many new inventions such as the tank, fighter and bomber planes, automatic weapons, machine gun, artillery, flamethrower, p