Claude-Étienne Minié: The Man Who Changed How Wars Were Fought

Claude-Étienne Minié: The Man Who Changed How Wars Were Fought

Claude-Étienne Minié (13 February 1804 – 14 December 1879) was a French military officer and inventor whose 1849 solution to a decades-old loading problem reshaped infantry combat more thoroughly than almost any other single development in firearms h