HGGC6 Michelangelo to The Somme

By HGGlobalCiv
  • Jul 28, 1504

    The Battle of Cascina

    The Battle of Cascina
    It was a Battle that Michelangelo began to paint the cartoon of, it was intended to be a fresco painted on a wall of the Salone dei Cinquecento. Which connect to Palazzo Vecchio which is the where the Salone dei Cinquecento is located.
  • Dec 18, 1540

    The Palazzo Vecchio (Battlements/first fire arms)

    The Palazzo Vecchio (Battlements/first fire arms)
    The building is crowned with projecting crenellated battlement. The battlements were built in 1299 when the building was built. But the battlement permitted the use of some of the earlier on fire arms. Which leads to the first production of riffles. Riffling appears in the 1540s.

  • The first repeating riffle

    The first repeating riffle
    In 1903, Winchester again made history when it created the first automatic rifle. The riffle influenced many riffles to come. One of those Riffles was the the Lee–Enfield

  • Fire power of the 20th century

    Fire power of the 20th century
    It was Lee-Enfield that was one of the most used weapons WW1. Which lead to the start of the Somme. It was the weapon that was most used in the somme.

  • The serval of a 19 year old boy. (saving his father)

    The serval of a 19 year old boy. (saving his father)
    If it was not for the Lee... weapon Then the 19 year old boy would have been shot by a german soldier as he goes to save his father that had been hit. It happen on he night of 5 October 1916