Yes, indeed, it’s an utterly ridiculous argument that the American Revolution itself stands in defiance of. A handful of Colonists armed with various and sundry rifles and muskets in various states of age and condition, with uncertain and precariously guarded supplies of powder and a scant assortment of cannon took on the most powerful organized military in the world as well as their hired professional Hessian mercenaries.
The Prussians?
I sympathise, but this creation myth is getting increasingly absurd. The British didn't even have light infantry training until 1803.
” took on the most powerful organized military in the world as well as their hired professional Hessian mercenaries.
Please, don’t be so hard on those Hessian troops, I probably wouldn’t be a citizen of this great (and under duress right now) country if it weren’t for my Hessian ancestry. My ancestors were “wheeler and dealers” and instead of fighting for the British they took 13 acres of land and a cow from Washington, George that was, and went to farming in western Pennsylvania. I guess you could say , it was sort of an entitlement for the times.
This is the story handed down to me by my “pappy” anyhow.