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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: Timber Rattler

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

More then you, globalist lackey. ( just returning the insult.)

The fighting style of the colonists was to not engage British troops in lined formations. They preferred to be “ungentlemanly” and would instead take opportune attacks, hiding behind trees, etc.

Washington technically “lost” most engagements, but he preserved his forces and kept engaging in skirmishes. If he had ever attempted a massive battle, it would have played into the strength of the British.

Much the same guerrilla tactics were employed by Queen Boudica against the superior Roman army. Her failure came when she launched a single large battle against the Romans.


40 posted on 09/04/2022 7:20:05 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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