Until the early 19th century, one observer, a British veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Major John Mitchell thought that it seemed nothing much had changed from the application of force on a battlefield since the days of the Greeks.

Until this time, and even after the Franco-Prussian War, military science continued to be divided between the formal thinking of officers brought up in the " shadow " of Napoleonic Wars

Until the Napoleonic Wars the European armies were quite small for a number of reasons: disease, the quality of food and medicine and the levée en masse ( mass conscription ) had not yet been introduced.

Until 1803, Weingarten belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate ; in the course of the Napoleonic wars it became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Until the Napoleonic wars, the military supply was ensured by looting, requisition or private companies.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

Until then, only a small percentage of the population were literate as only wealthy individuals and institutions could afford the materials.

Until the 15th century these small states were on the periphery of the major Sudanic empires of the era.

Until the early 1990s locals filled water cisterns from the rain that fell on roofs and courts, from small springs, and with imported assistance from other areas of Greece.

Until the mid-19th century, both Cambridge and Oxford were rather a group of colleges with a small central university administration, than universities in the common sense.

Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject.

Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

Despite the book's one-sided and prejudiced statements about gay men, one middle-aged matron from a small town in Wisconsin was heard to say " Until I read this book, I never actually knew precisely what it was that homosexuals did ".

Until recently, the technique was relatively insensitive to small slope movements and could not be automated because it relied on human detection of changes in the reflectance trace over time.

Until the time of Napoleon, European states employed relatively small armies, made up of both national soldiers and mercenaries.

Until the pogrom on 1348 during an outbreak of the plague, there was a small Jewish community in Solothurn.

Until locks were installed to raise the level in the 1800s, the river was much shallower within the city most of the time, and consisted of a small channel of continuous flow bordered by sandy banks ( depicted in many illustrations of the period ).

Until the Eleventh Party Congress, East German leaders had maintained that small and medium states had a significant role to play in international affairs.

Until the 1970s Khamis Mushait was a small town of less than 50, 000 servicing the surrounding mild-climate agricultural region.

Until 2007 it had a small office open to the public in Southsea town centre, but this was subsequently closed.

Until the early 18th century, virtually all European small craft and many larger vessels were built without formal plans being drawn.

Until 1993, the Avid Media Composer could only be used for editing commercials or other small content projects, because the Apple Macintosh computers could access only 50 gigabytes of storage at one time.

Until the mid 19th century Sylt was an island almost completely devoid of trees, only artificial plantations created small areas of forest and bush.

Until the twentieth century, Ainu languages were also spoken throughout the southern half of the island of Sakhalin and by small numbers of people in the Kuril Islands.

Until the 19th century Folkestone remained a small fishing community with a seafront that was continually battered by storms and encroaching shingle that made it hard to land boats.

Until recently there were also small numbers of fallow deer of European origin and sambar deer from southeast Asia.

Until this time the British had 6 sizes of ship of the line, and they found that their smaller 50-and 60-gun ships were becoming too small for the battle line, while their 80s and over were 3-deckers and therefore unwieldy and unstable in heavy seas.

Until the coming of the railway in 1857, Beckenham was a small village in the county of Kent with almost completely rural surroundings: once a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas here, its population soared from 2000 to 26, 000 during 1850-1900 and throughout the rest of the century.

Until the late 19th century a small river flowed northward from Crofton Park and east of Malpas Rd to join the River Thames via Deptford Creek.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

Until this German Federal legislation was introduced, there were no recognised mechanism to prevent administrators in private bodies and civil servants in public-funded bodies ( such as universities ) from automatically discriminating between the qualifications of people with German doctorates compared to holders of doctorates from an EU member state.

Until about 1800, it was almost entirely a written language, but now it is so widely spoken that most of the former German dialects are nearly extinct.

Until 1935, the 1926 manual Directives for the Conduct of the Operational Air War continued to act as the main guide for German air operations.

Erich Rader, Grand Admiral: The Personal Memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy From 1935 Until His Final Break With Hitler in 1943.

Until the End of the World () is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders ; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin.

Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world, and before the first world war and the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the city had 2 million inhabitants.

Until 1848 he remained on friendly terms with the German communists, occasionally calling himself a communist and writing articles on communism in the Schweitzerische Republikaner.

Until recently some German cities retained an office entitled Praetor.

Until the major revolt began in 1944, the AK concentrated on self-defence ( freeing prisoners and hostages, defence against pacification measures ) and striking at the German forces.

" Until the early twentieth century, Brethren were colloquially called Tunkers or Dunkers ( from the German for immersionists ).

Until Franckel and Moro-Giafferi took over the defense, everybody had accepted that Grynszpan went to the Embassy in a rage and shot the first German he saw, as a political act to avenge the persecution of his family and German Jews in general.

Until the 1960s Low German was the prevailing language of everyday communication.

Until 2005, Künast served as the German Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, known for increasing consumer protection, supporting organic farming, and expanding animal welfare.

Until September 2012 MAN SE was one of the top 30 companies listed on the German stock exchange ( DAX ).

Until the cessation of World War I, the palazzo served as the German Embassy to Rome.

Until the late Middle Ages Ostfriesland resisted the attempts of German states to conquer the coasts.

Until the expulsions after World War II, the city contained a significant German minority ( about 15. 5 % in 1930 ).

Until 1990, the Inner German Border ran through the western third of the Harz.

Until the United States ' involvement in the First World War, the older members of the Synod remained overwhelmingly German in their language, but younger members had long switched to English.

Until 1995, when the German Federal Republic ’ s third series of bank notes was removed from circulation, an engraving of the Holsten Gate ( western / field side ) adorned the back of the 50 DM note