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To: Timber Rattler

Look up Baron Friedrich Von Steuben and how he trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge.
A Genius for Training Baron von Steuben and the Training of the Continental Army

The continental army didn’t face cruise missile strikes on its troops and it was also smart enough, thru gen. Washington, to avoid major engagements with the British; basically employing strategies of asymmetrical warfare.


37 posted on 09/04/2022 6:47:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Flick Lives
The continental army didn’t face cruise missile strikes on its troops and it was also smart enough, thru gen. Washington, to avoid major engagements with the British; basically employing strategies of asymmetrical warfare.

You obviously don't know much about the Revolutionary War, do you, Comrade Flick?

1) The Citizen Soldiers of Washington's Army had to face the bayonets of the mighty British war machine, and generally broke and fled before Von Steuben arrived and trained them to stand toe to toe with the Red Coat Regulars;

2) It's a myth that Washington avoided major engagements with the British. If so, then there would have been no battles of Long Island and Manhattan, Trenton and Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, and finally Yorktown, with a bunch of smaller engagements in between (like Bennington and Stony Point). And then there were the battles fought by his peers and subordinates like Saratoga (Gates and Arnold), Cowpens (Morgan), and Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs (Greene).

38 posted on 09/04/2022 6:58:43 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Flick Lives
and it was also smart enough, thru gen. Washington, to avoid major engagements with the British; basically employing strategies of asymmetrical warfare.

Exactly.

60 posted on 09/04/2022 8:21:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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