French Trafalgar, British Waterloo (1858-1882)

Second Great European War
The war that broke out in the spring of 1858 was one of the most destructive of conflicts the world had ever faced up to that date. The slaughter that took place stunned the world, as the armies of the major powers, now using rifled artillery and "rifled" muskets, as well as Nationalism and Imperialism, had managed to mobilize armies that the commanders, trained in the old school of decisive battle, couldn't understand why the battle they had just waged failed, even though they knew that, if the forces in one sector had to retreat, their was thousands more willing young men ready to go into battle.