Yes, that was thanks to the smoothbore musket and bayonet and artillery shells that didn't explode more than say, 50% of the time and took fully two minutes to load. There wasn't the posibility for quite so much carnage in the napoleonic war because you can't fight trench warfare with muskets. It was the trenches that killed people, not the battles. The Battle of waterloo was a blood bath, there were something in the number of half a million combatants in you count both sides and about 100 thousand killed or horribly wounded. In one day of combat with smoothbore muzzle loading weapons which had an effective range of about 40 yards.
The difference is, when the fighting was done, they didn't haul thier dead back and lie in the mud for weeks on end, they packed up and shipped home again, but I would agree that the napoleonic wars make a much better WW1.
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