[Oberon]

You've got to somehow integrate small-arms technical development into the story. Innovation in infantry rifles was going...[ahem]..."great guns" at the time. =]

Was Imperial Russia using the Berdan rifle by then?

PS: Of course you don't have to say anything about infantry rifles. That's just a topic I greatly enjoy, and the suggestion was tongue-in-cheek.

[carton253]

I’ve had to revise the paper because it was not Ottoman friendly enough. So, unless the Ottoman’s invented the infantry rifle and the minie ball, it will not be mentioned in the paper.