Posted on 07/11/2014 11:58:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes I know, but generally he fought under “European” standards, because he had to. Indeed in the backwoods it was hard to fight anything but “guerrilla”, and he learned alot from Indians, but in the RevWar despite all the myth-making, the rebel forces almost always fought conventionally. The most unconventional part about Washington was his sneakiness with leaving the enemy behind unawares. He was trying to save his armies. Guerrilla warfare was basically just for very small skirmishes, and that is because muskets simply do not lend themselves to surprise and hiding. So the fighting depended on the ground.
Mixing guerrilla and conventional forces then would’ve been like the mixing of technology in WWI. It simply couldn’t happen in the RevWar; whereas WWI shows just how disastrous and awful mixing technology and methods can be.
At any rate, when the dust settled, a French emissary was dead and hostilities began.
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