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The French Revolution


All the sources stress the importance of duty to the cause, in particular, source C that evokes the prospect of a holy, or just war, in defence of the majority of the people. Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what was a predominantly team-based society, a suggestion could be perceived that one would let down the side if the reader did not enlist for armed service. All the posters also suggest that the armies would be on the defensive, not the aggressors in the conflict,.
             The differences, however are more readily recognised, the patriotism in the former sources being subsequently replaced by usage of basically fear, with the threat from the "mad brute" contrasting to the easy and confident stance of the earlier sources. These sources definitely do not entertain the notion of defeat, let alone the horrors of warfare, which in prior conflicts had been considerable. In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-Enfield (GB) or Mauser (Germany) used in the latter conflict, together with the machine gun, poison gas and more powerful, accurate artillery meant that casualties were almost assured in the Great War, and dissatisfaction or disillusionment rendered the earlier tactics outdated, if not obsolete. .
             The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. This is shown between the posters, the former merely being straightforward recruitment posters, while the latter may be seen to provide external reason for hostilities, due to the massive damage committed by the somewhat deranged gorilla.


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