More significantly, the "Soldier-King" had made considerable reforms to the Prussian army's training, tactics and conscription program--introducing the canton system and leaving his son Frederick with a formidable weapon with which to build Prussia's power.
More significantly, the "Soldier-King" had made considerable reforms to the Prussian army's training, tactics and conscription program--introducing the canton system, and greatly increasing the Prussian infantry's rate of fire through the introduction of the iron ramrod. Frederick William's military reforms left his son Frederick with a formidable weapon with which to build Prussia's power.