Tanks in World War I

Tanks did not play a very big role in World War One, but they became a new war machine which proved to be very important in wars after World War One. <Tab/>The caterpillar track (on which the tank traveled) was first designed in 1770 by Richard Edgeworth. The Crimean War used a small number of tractors to maneuver around the muddy battlefield. The development of the internal combustion engine in 1885 by …

…to 40 miles per hour. By the end of the war, the British had produced some 2,636 tanks. The French produced 3,870. The Germans, surprisingly, produced just 20. This new weapon led to big changes in war tactics following World War One. <Tab/>All my sources were online sources. My main source was FirstWorldWar.com. It has very reliable information, but some of the details contradicted those from another website I used, HistoryLearningSite.co.uk.