redcoats and revolutionaries

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Keets writes:

<< 
 I'll go for that one.  The approach that's forming up looks like the British 
 Red Coats againsts the American Revolutionaries.  Guess who's likely to win? 
   (At the risk of further annoying Dave.)
  >>

Ummm.. just to make sure you udnerstand this Keets, it was not the people's 
militia that won the Rev War for us - though they helped.  Rather, it was a 
standing European style Continental Army, trained by Prussian Baron Von 
Steuben, that fought the British regulars toe to toe after 1777 that won the 
war.

Continental forces were augmented by militia in many battles, but the militia 
could not stand in the face of superior British discipline and British 
bayonets.  They usually fired one or two shots and bailed, leaving the rest 
to the Continentals.

The Continental Army was disbanded, by the way, upon conculsion of the war.

Greg Biggs/CVC Collectables