Was the American Civil War the first Modern War?

Gervase Phillips points out the limitations in a common interpretation.

'The Monitor and Merrimac: The First Fight Between Ironclads', a chromolithograph of the Battle of Hampton Roads, produced by Louis Prang & Co., BostonIt has been something of a commonplace to descri

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