Posted on 09/04/2022 5:38:28 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
BTW, that “cavalry” is actually Colonel William Washington’s 1st and 3rd Continental Light Dragoons. And they were indeed placed behind Greene’s third line to hide them from the British
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Sort of hard to hide a horse and rider, about 8 feet tall, behind troops, 6 feet tall. If you were going to hide cavalry, you’d position them well offside, possibly over a rise or some other visual obstruction.
Perhaps they used ponies. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Ponies could be hidden behind infantry troops.
Except the ones getting slaughtered are the RuSSian invaders.
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