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  • Are you American? Because this is also my rough understanding of the revolution, plus a bit of an idiot stubborn king and over the top children.

    In the UK we learn basically nothing about it, mostly focus on Romans, Tudors, vikings and world wars etc. everything I’ve heard about the American revolution is from US shows or pieces from various history podcasts. But I’d never share my understanding generally on the revolution as someone from the UK in mostly US dominated sites.







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    1 year ago

    There’s definitely an argument to that logic. 10 bullets in one person may as well be 1. People don’t fall down instantly so a volley is likely to do little to a column of troops like Napoleon liked to use.

    But I know pretty much nothing about the American civil war, and it sounds like the north was able to produce far more than the south. So probably a bad decision.




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    I believe it was a transitional time for warfare. Muskets weren’t much better than earlier technology, their strength was that you didn’t need much training at all to use them as opposed to a bow or sword.

    In earlier wars, if often came down to whoever broke and fled first, a smaller army fighting for beliefs rather than a Lord could beat a bigger army.

    But they undervalued newer technology that could cause havoc by relatively untrained people. It wasn’t the same as WW1 where this really showed, but it was definitely on the way.