The Revolutionary War people were much tougher than we are now. They almost all had to be frontiersmen. Meaning they could all live off the land with a gun and the basics. Samuel Adams was a serious tough guy. He became prominent right after the French and Indian War. He became serious trouble when England tried to flex their colonial muscle. When they tried to get away with what they did in India (sucking their entire economy out), it didn't work out for the English because there were these tough American men here that had been fighting Indians and each other for years. The Adams brothers spearheaded the whole conflict verbally with England. And Sam Adams was organizing people to sac the English ships with cargo. I love that time period. Those Americans did a lot of us. Rights. They exercised them and had a nasty fight with the English over it.
I know this comment is super late on a year old video, but the old line infantry tactics weren't stupid, they made perfect sense. They figured out that whichever side had a higher rate of fire with better troop discipline would almost always win. But you're firing muskets. They're slow to reload, they aren't accurate past 50 meters, completely ineffective past 100 meters and nobody can see anything after the first or second volley anyway. So what you do is train a bunch a guys to march together, keeping formation over broken ground, ignoring bullets and explosions and dying people and horses and stuff, and teach them to reload and fire very fast. The British were the fastest in the world, firing 4 times per minute. Other nations usually trained 3 times per minute, and some of them were good enough to do it, like the French. So you march this unit of 100 or so guys across a field, keeping them in tight order where you can see everyone and everyone can hear orders over the sound of the battlefield (and also for morale purposes, since its harder to turn and run when your friends are standing shoulder to shoulder with you.) You get within range of the enemy, around 50 meters or so, ignoring casualties as you go, closing up the holes in the ranks, and you order them to halt, present arms, and fire. You fire as one, reload, fire, reload, fire, reload, fire, reload, fire….putting about 500 or so giant musket balls downrange in less than a minute, cutting down everyone in front of you like scythe going through wheat. Then you fix bayonets and charge through the smoke cloud and stab the enemy to death until they run away. Whoever had the better training, better reloading drill, and larger nuts would win. It worked, too.
The revolutionary war and America's independence was won with significant help from France's Francois DeGrasse. There's a statue of him with Washington where they teamed up and beat the British that led to capturing 8K British soldiers. The Brits then signed agreement to not attack North America.
A sufficient power disparity renders any skill your opponent has irrelevant.
The Revolutionary War people were much tougher than we are now. They almost all had to be frontiersmen. Meaning they could all live off the land with a gun and the basics. Samuel Adams was a serious tough guy. He became prominent right after the French and Indian War. He became serious trouble when England tried to flex their colonial muscle. When they tried to get away with what they did in India (sucking their entire economy out), it didn't work out for the English because there were these tough American men here that had been fighting Indians and each other for years. The Adams brothers spearheaded the whole conflict verbally with England. And Sam Adams was organizing people to sac the English ships with cargo. I love that time period. Those Americans did a lot of us. Rights. They exercised them and had a nasty fight with the English over it.
I know this comment is super late on a year old video, but the old line infantry tactics weren't stupid, they made perfect sense. They figured out that whichever side had a higher rate of fire with better troop discipline would almost always win. But you're firing muskets. They're slow to reload, they aren't accurate past 50 meters, completely ineffective past 100 meters and nobody can see anything after the first or second volley anyway. So what you do is train a bunch a guys to march together, keeping formation over broken ground, ignoring bullets and explosions and dying people and horses and stuff, and teach them to reload and fire very fast. The British were the fastest in the world, firing 4 times per minute. Other nations usually trained 3 times per minute, and some of them were good enough to do it, like the French. So you march this unit of 100 or so guys across a field, keeping them in tight order where you can see everyone and everyone can hear orders over the sound of the battlefield (and also for morale purposes, since its harder to turn and run when your friends are standing shoulder to shoulder with you.) You get within range of the enemy, around 50 meters or so, ignoring casualties as you go, closing up the holes in the ranks, and you order them to halt, present arms, and fire. You fire as one, reload, fire, reload, fire, reload, fire, reload, fire….putting about 500 or so giant musket balls downrange in less than a minute, cutting down everyone in front of you like scythe going through wheat. Then you fix bayonets and charge through the smoke cloud and stab the enemy to death until they run away. Whoever had the better training, better reloading drill, and larger nuts would win. It worked, too.
The revolutionary war and America's independence was won with significant help from France's Francois DeGrasse. There's a statue of him with Washington where they teamed up and beat the British that led to capturing 8K British soldiers. The Brits then signed agreement to not attack North America.
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