War was also much less intense and drawn out even up to say the Napoleonic war. If some one had started in the dunes in Flanders and gone through to Waterloo t

War was also much less intense and drawn out even up to say the Napoleonic war. If some one had started in the dunes in Flanders and gone through to Waterloo the amount of time in actual combat would be measured in hours - as opposed to D Day when a soldier might have exceed that time well inside the first week