danthepirate
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I have latly been reading from a book about the revoluntionary war and it has been very interesting. What has always amazed me though about this era was the tactics used by most of the british generals and some of the contenintal generals who were formaly british officers. They would line up muzzle to muzzle about 25 yards away and just shoot at each other. Pretty fickin crazy. So many men died that didn't need to because they were just standing there out in the open. Also these lines would be about 2-3 men deep lined up shoulder to shoulder. A canon ball bouncing off the ground would take out like 5 guys because they were so close together. I wonder why these generals didn't take notice of this stuff and try to do something about it like spreading their men out so they wouldn't be such easy targets or trying something like trench war fare out or something! Actually the colonies did work something out sort of. Well mostly only the militia that weren't trained in the "art" of standing in line to be shot. They would hide behind trees and bushes and use guerilla tactics and it worked. There were some pretty effective bands of militia that did serious damage to the supply lins of the british and all that. The british prime minister at the time, Lord North, said"...It may be said of the Continental army that every private man will in action be his own general, who will turn every tree and bush into some kind of temorary fortress...."
Well I though that this type of warfare really was weird and didn't make any sense at all. What do all of you think? All opinions welcome on this one.
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Well I though that this type of warfare really was weird and didn't make any sense at all. What do all of you think? All opinions welcome on this one.
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