😡“How Dare You Shoot at Officers!!!” Combat Role of a Rifleman during the Revolutionary War
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- The British were opposed to the American Colonists use of riflemen or sharpshooters taking out officers. They also used rifleman, specifically hunters from Germany known as Jägers. They had Jäger rifles that were shorter in length but could fire larger calibers than other rifles of the time.
This event was at the Battle of Blackstock’s Farm in Union, SC.
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His voice makes me feel like im about to get yelled at for losing my powerarmor
Omfg your right
YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM, PATRIOT! WHERE IS YOUR FEATHERED CAP!
@@AdjutantReflex0
Uh me no have
He could be the 200-yr ancestor of Gunnery Sgt Hartman during the 1770's. 😂
@@Falkriim Don't have it?!
YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT, MAGGOT!?
The truth is: you've lost a red-tailed hawk feathered Tricorn cap.
AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS (cause the continental army did not last all that long)
WHICH IS HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO REPLACE THAT EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT!
NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT AND DONT COME BACK TIL YOU LOOM LIKE A SOLDIER!
This man explains things so violently.
I think he is trying to keep people engaged or he’d make people fall asleep with his history lessons lol
@@BattlefieldCurator
He reminds me of basic, he has great delivery.
Well it’s war he’s talking about. Nothing calm about war
@@JosephLatorra the only thing calm about war is the time before it
I’d understand, about anything else besides a topic of war. Perfect tone I think
Upset? What were they going fo do,start a war over it?
Based
I mean, it's the mighty British empire, the largest military in the world, most advanced navy in the world, i am pretty sure they can stomp down a little rebellion made up of poorly trained militias. No biggie.
😂😂
Thay would find a a way
The Germans called the pump action shotgun a war crime because it destroyed their soldiers in the trenches, all the while killing civilians, using chemicals, assassinating and building Nukes. It's all a bit trivial.🤣
I had a history teacher in high-school that taught like this. Best teacher I ever had. Everyone payed attention, and learned history. Thank you Mr. Steeley.
Those kinds of teachers are so rare. I’d have given anything to have had great history and math instructors.
Fun fact: 33 Year old Scotsman Captain Patrick Ferguson one of the best marksmen in the British Army had the opportunity to shoot an American Officer as he was riding past. But because he felt it would have been wrong to ambush and shoot an officer in the back he let him go. That officer he let live turned out to be General George Washington.
I was just going to tell that George Washington movie!
No
Whoops 🤦♂️
I'm a Brit' with some clan ties to the chap... and we'd say he messed up 😂
I heard this a while ago so I might be off, but the reason he didn't shoot was also because the weapon he was using was his own invention (the Ferguson Rifle), this happened after a battle, and basically was told that his rifle wouldn't be used. He was walking back to camp or wherever, and decided that it wasn't even worth it (basically had a fit and kept walking)
I'm curious, how do they actually know that to be fact?
So what I’m understanding is that “it’s only a war crime if your caught” was a thing back in the 1700’s as well
The term "war crimes" didn't exist and wasn't a thing back then. Sure there were "rules of war" but these were more guidelines than actual rules and very few nations actually followed ALL of the rules.
We learned from the best, and now the turn tables
"History is written by the victor" so yes the winner usually got to decide what was a war crime or not (though, as others point out, that was not an understood term yet). USA committed war crimes in nearly every war we've been in but we don't talk about that because we're "liberators"
Remember, it was mostly the first time officers were main targets. And I have it on high authority that "It's never a war crime the first time."
@@Anarchristian_Beanz "Maybe the real warcrimes were the friends we made along the way" -Britain to America in 1945 🥲
Men like this are what truly kept me engaged on these types of trips growing up, the passion history brings some people is truly awesome
That’s the wonderful difference between a lecture and an interpretation. People tend to be more engaged with interpretations, like this man did here
Maybe they just found a hobo, shaped him and put him into an old uniform
@@yourstruly4817 damn, that hobo really knows his shit
@@mysterystainontherug6290u never read a fact sheet before?
He's also lying.
"Not shooting officers" wasn't a thing in the slightest.
This guy's voice is what everyone hears when they think of a drill instructor
No, a good drill instructor can put the fear of God into you with one word uttered in such a terrifying manner
All my Drill Instructors had to do was silently stare. It was much worse if they silently indicated you with their knife hand. That meant you were the complete issue holding everyone up as 39 of your classmates turned to stare at you, silently let you know they would not like it if they couldn’t get to sleep on time, or much worse, not graduate on time.
Ironic he a retired US Army and has his a Doctorate in history.
Gives me Gunny vibes
"You can't shoot at officers! That's illegal!"
"You can't use shotguns! That's illegal!"
"You cant use Atomic bombs, that's illegal"
The shotguns one never happened. Just a modern myth that got spread over the internet.
@@marinribaric9749partly correct. The Germans did ask it to be made “illegal” but this was not fulfilled
@@gabrielcastileherrera9262Cause they were using flamethrowers and chemical warfare at the time.
@@BrendenBurke-c4fSo was the US and all of our allies btw too😂
This dude is explaining the point like he was there when they first found out about it and he’s still pissed 10/10 reenactment
😂
British "its not polite to intentionally shoot at officers"
George washington: sir this is a war and i intend to win
Washington directly benefited from a British officer choosing not to shoot him off his horse at Brandywine.
@@mackenzieblair8135their mistake.
@@mackenzieblair8135mercy kills in war, hitler had a story of when he was in WW1 where a soldier had the chance to take his life but instead gave his evil ass mercy. Always take the life in war.
YEE haw
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 He paid for it later. He would be killed at Kings Mountain.
This man should have been a history teacher
He is practically a history teacher, but this is probably way better to him because he can teach what actually happened and give the details he personally finds interesting without having to deal with kids or grade papers😂
@@magiman7638 sounds like a win-win to me
@@magiman7638👍👍👍👍👍
A friend from college taught upper grades in 2-3 room school. For history class he had them play role playing games like 1776, and the students got more out of class. Later, I talked to a lady who was homeschooling her children. Living in the Carolinas & Virginia area. Visit battlefield & historic sites, collect free brochures. Then write a report of what they learned.
Visited Yorktown, VA, went to glass making site. 19 y/o young man gave presentation. Loose-leaf binder with notes. Did a good job. Had been volunteering with NPS since about 12-13 y/o. I saw a good future for him: NPS, re-enactor, history teacher at HS or college level, maybe even book author. He was developing his skills.
this is like saying “Lebron James should play basketball”
I appreciate him discussing British and German riflemen. People act like every American was a rifleman, but in reality it was a small number because in pitched battles, muskets were usually better even at longer range. A rifle was more accurate, but a musket could fire 3x faster, and that gap widened as the rifle's barrel fouled after continuous fire amd ot because much harder and slower to reload. Rifles were a specialist tool, but muskets were the everyman's weapon, and better suited for most infantry engagements in the War of American Independence
@WeThePeeple1776no they aren't. In this time period rifles refer to long guns that had rifled barrels. Muskets are just rifles that don't have rifled barrels. The rifling makes a big difference between accurate, range, as we know and back then it also had an adverse effect on how often the barrels needs to be cleaned and reload times
@WeThePeeple1776man just log off at this point 😂😂 what are YOU talking abotu
The term "Rifleman" is often misunderstood.
@WeThePeeple1776Tell me you don't know musketry without telling me you don't know musketry.
i have never heard of the misconception of all americans being riflemen.
"war crimes" are really just what your enemy cries about when they're losing
the US was complaining about germany using serrated blades in WWI
after germany complained about
(illegal ammunition types for ) shotguns
exactly
america was losing so they cried about it
because germany was winning that war
@@quantemwensdayyou don't know anything about history. America didn't join the war until 1917. Germany most certainly was not winning during that time.
@@brettbrooks5511 you obviously don't know about winning because they were
"Smite the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter."
That sounds like a redneck version of Shan Zu quote, it's a great quote.
Vietnam be like: higher ups pissing me off…. Hand me that frag….
I've got an uncle who was in nam, he claims any officer or enlisted that was a screw up,or got others killed by stupidity; a steel pot was put out with their name and donations were made. Transfers happened fast, or waste a frag.
"GREAT that's the idea!" 😂😂 What a colorful personality 😂😂
Right?! I should interview him for the show!
It’s a war crime if you lose
Or you are considered a traitor
@@arthurbrumagem3844 either way the big guys don’t feel the problem
Hell, even if you lose, it's not a warcrime if you still present enough of a threat to your enemies that they are unable to arrest you. For a textbook example of this, just look at Russia.
@@EricSwordswinger Russia? A threat? In what century? The 12th?
Okay, MAYBE, when the US and Russia were fresh out of ww2 it was a closer call... but if it wasn't for the nukes, Russia would be part of the European Union, most of China, and lots of smaller east-asian countries, would be subservient to NATO, and not a brat investing money into countries they aren't entirely friendly with, and, in general NOT BE 3/4s a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!
I absolutely love this guy’s energy while he explains this.
Definitely! 💯
If in a war you do something the other side _really_ doesn't like, it's generally either a really good idea or a really bad idea and rarely anything in between.
Those Kentucky rifles really did Burgoyne in.
And then we're never used again....yep no bad history with *those* rifles at all
@@stonemanofgardnerville1162Passive-aggressive snark is the mark of the chestless man. If you want to say something, come out and say it.
Hence the term "Kentucky windage" with use of the smooth bore@@stonemanofgardnerville1162
An officer is a uniformed combatant. No special treatment.
Mostly they didnt like us killing their officers because most were nobility. So we were snuffing out british gentry, and didnt like that.
Indeed, they didn’t want prominent figures dying in the war
Fuck the Monarchy 🖕🏻
They didn’t want officers to die because it would mean the men would be left without explicit orders, meaning they could pillage and burn the American country
"Skill issue, lol."
-Sun Tzu
And it was believed that an army without officers would quickly break apart and turn to banditry and wanton violence.
He seems a little tipsy which is lore accurate.
How dare you sir, attacking an officer of a noble bloodline. Such barbarous act.
Britain: "its not polite to shoot at officers"
Washington: "politeness went over the portside with your tea."
Despite being British and considering dumping tea into the harbour another war crime, this actually made me laugh
@@J-alCaponeHey, "taxation without representation." $;^ J
Never a war crime the first time. It's a war crime if you lose
He’s missing the point of the objection to shooting at officers: *CLASS MAINTENANCE* The upper classes didn’t want “the rabble” getting any ideas that they could overthrow the upper class. On this point, in Europe, the upper class of both sides always agreed.
You can’t very well maintain a monarchy or any sort of feudal system if the rabble know how to kill the upper class.
This is BS the "rabble" had been killing the nobility since the 14th century in England. Check out Agincourt or Bannockburn, or in France Coutrai
This ^
Yeah you get it. Reminds me of a Megadeth song, architecture of aggression. Nobles fight other nobles over taxes and market shares... They could never have defended themselves from this servants.
Did you almost lose your mind when brave heart came out? That show almost made me lose it.
“Oi mate! Don’t shoot at the officers! It will give the rabble ideas above their stations! The peasants might rebel!”
“We are the rabble! You’re fighting a rebellion, jackass!”
“Oh! Oh… Well then, carry on!”
@@DestructionOfRome Rubbish! During the Wars of the Roses (late 15th century) the victors would pursue the defeated army with the orders "Kill the nobles, spare the commons"
Nah, like any good parent, they were just saying “do as we say, not as we do” 😂😂
I didn’t know jaggers wore green beanies on the battlefields of the 1700s, the more you know
did you also tell your riflemen to ignore the modern-day traffic in the background. 😂😂
“Its never a war crime the first time” - The Fat Electrician
I immediately came looking for this comment 😂
Dang electricians I’m always having to pick up things they put down
Three people the enemy should never attack:
1. The officers who are the only ones keeping the enlisted under control.
"They killed the commanding officer, now what?".
"Now we teach they why that was the wrong move".
2. The medic who is keeping them alive
3. The supply guy who keeps them happy with booze and anything else the ask for.
The death of any or all will ignite the imagination that will lead to the hence unknown war crime.
The Fat Electrician
“They had jaegers” (proceeds to show a guy without any rifle casually standing there with a beanie)
Pro tip, do not take out current US American officers. They are the only one on the battlefield that cares about the rules.
No no, they are the only ones that can read the phrasing of the geneva conventions
Plus, you will put the NCOs in command and they know what they're doing
They know the rules but haven't a clue what they are doing
The officer is the dog handler keeping the wolfs in check... officer death? Welp better start running
@fanmrsmartdonkey if the dogs are that easily kept in check, then they're weak.
I love the energy behind "Great! That's the idea!"
Bro would be a top tier history teacher. Mans is very involved. Chad man
Yes 💯😁
There is SOME truth to not wanting a leaderless armed force because it was often the officers that halted the extreme bad behaviours after battles, where generally the civilian populace could suffer.
The Americans were just as British as the British. Spoke the same, ate the same, thought the same, read the same books, shared the same history.
Not really. Americans had colonized and been here for a really long time. Didnt see any sense in being told what to do, by some monarch thousands of miles away. Freedom. Brits dont believe its a right to be protected. They protect jewels and tea, and sht like that.
They didn't think the same....
@@michaelgreene2920
Likely didn't eat exactly the same either...
Nor did they likely speak with even the same accent anymore..
Because the Colonies were already at least a generation or two removed from England, having been established in the 17th century.
Hate when people ignore that
Dude is wrong on every point
@@septimus7524 I agree, I say a lot of things had changed...
But never Americans the same
🇬🇧: Hey no fair you can’t shoot at our officers!
🇺🇸: sorry I don’t speak Kilometer.
😂
Brits don't use kilometres...they use miles.
If you're gonna banter, at least do it right.
British people use miles lmao
@@anon2427
How dare the Islander bastards copy us!?
Mate, where do you think 🇺🇲 got the miles from? The french?
Dude could speak in a stadium without a microphone
The British: How dare you commit War Crimes….In Public!
Go for the radio operator usually the guy beside him is the officer😜
Lol
I bet you did a good bit of KP and latrine duty ..
Machine gunner gets targeted first.
@@rp8069 🙈😂😂😂
Dude looks like Hermann Göring
An early version, yes.
Oh damn, I kinda see it
To skinny
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg see him after he kicked morphine
I wanna hear this guy say “I want pictures of spider man”
🎩👌
I'm sorry, the British didn't just have Riflemen, they invented Riflemen.
I have 3 ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, one American who was a former Scottish slave of the British Empire, an English officer, and a German mercenary.
Very cool family history! 😁🍻
The British never charged the US for war crimes for killing officers in battle. They hired loyalists to do the same thing to us.
They hired them?
Was going to say, targeting Officers was pretty standard for riflemen even back in mainland Europe, I keep hearing Americans make this claim that what they did was somehow unique or an upset to the British but it really wasn't.
@@IvanIvanoIvanovich Yes when you employ a soldier you're hiring him
@@mildlyderanged It wasn't unique no one said that, it did piss the British off though, although looking the wrong way pissed off the British, it's not a hard task
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg Just an odd way to phrase it, as compared to "enlisted" or "volunteered."
Given that attacking the commanders of an army was an established tactic prior to the revolutionary war, this sounds like propaganda. Wiley American outsmarts rule bound British is a common trope.
Finally. Someone with Common Sense.
Yeah target the officer/leader was always an established tactic for thousands of years
This is not smart this is effective which are incredibly, and often contradictory, different
@@alistairmcinnes5433 the thing is we just shot whoever was easy to hit, the thing this guy is saying isn't accurate as we never trained our men to shoot the officers
Yeah, it's pop history lore made by Hollywood, and it's really frustrating because everybody and their dog who doesn't read history genuinely believes it because they're so disconnected with the past.
As a brit I can confirm we were really quite upset that they shot our officers.
Lol
Bahahaha
He voice reminds me of a drill sergeant at basic training during rifle training
I love the way this guy pauses and then says WAR CRIMES!
0 chance this is true, targeting officers was standard practice for skirmishers in every european army
Not really, why do you think they had shit like the 100 years war
@SubtotalStar850-uh8pg that was 3-400 years earlier, unsurprisingly military doctrine progressed in that time frame. Also, they didn't kill nobility because the nobles could be ransomed, that doesn't mean they weren't targeting the nobles.
The video maker is just repeating a propaganda point that was used to paint the independence War as working people against aristocratic nobles, it's like people calling napoleon short when he was really average height.
@@me6664 how is this propaganda you Brit? Just because you're mad you lost doesn't make this propaganda lol, obviously they weren't fucking ransoming people a thousand miles away
@@SubtotalStar850-uh8pgdon't speak on matters you don't understand man, it's better that way.
I love the look on people's faces when I explain to them we had rifles at the time of the American Revolution, a far more accurate and deadly firearm that was more expensive than the muskets wielded by the regulars.
I've absolutely had to explain this before. Imparting spin on a projectile for stabilization wasn't a new idea even before guns came around, spiral fletching was already being used in crossbow bolts/arrows.
The first record of spiral rifling in a musket was in 1520. It had to be hand engraved, it was expensive and very time consuming to do. No doubt that another 200 years and more people would learn to do it.
IIRC the main reason muskets had a place for hundreds of years after rifling was invented, is because rifles were held back by very rapid groove fouling, which caused malfunctions much faster than in muskets. I could be wrong though.
@@Chicky_Lumps You are correct. You would be able to fire only several times before the rifling would be of no benefit. Made more sense for hunting than it did for battle.
I remember reading about a group,to join you had to have a rifle,and the shooting to qualify was at 200 yds
Sire, Sire, The peasants are revolting ! Oh I know !
im a dutch 27th jäger in the napoleontic wars. and i can confirm, we aim for the officers.
As a loyalist I stand by the crown.
Gives off germans calling shotguns a warcrime vibe
Did they really?????
@@ma2perduehe’s referencing Americas answer to traditional trench warfare in the First World War: *The 1897 Winchester “Street Sweeper”.*
The 1897 was a shotgun that was capable of a feature that is no longer present in shotguns today. That feature would be slam-firing. You would hold the trigger down and throw out pellets of hot lead as fast as you could pump your shotgun. With this method you could empty out your entire magazine tube in a fraction of the time it would take for one of those bolt-actions nerds to cycle another round. This noise would carry a large psychological impact as well. Really, when machine guns were too cumbersome/unreliable and bolt actions were too slow and required aiming- the Trench Sweeper was genuinely the only solution. Did I forget to mention that you could fasten a gnarly bayonet to the shotgun as well? Lol
Yes. Germanys response to the U.S. cracking the code on early 20th century trench warfare was very critical. They called it inhuman. They called it “barbaric”. In Sept. 19, 1918, Germany would formally request that they remove the shotgun from the war entirely. Germany would cite The Hague Convention (Article 23e) and, in an attempt to gaslight everyone by ignoring the fact that they were using chemical weapons in war already, they would try to convince everyone into believing that the SHOTGUN, (the trench sweeper to be exact) was “inhumane”! They would go on to add in their own German law of war (Kriegsrecht) that IF anyone was caught using a shotgun or was in possession of so much as shotgun shell they would be immediately executed and that isn’t an exaggeration.
America never stopped using the shotgun… ever. It only evolved shapes and every nations military in the world has them. So I guess it’s safe to assume that America probably responded to Germanys calls to halt the usage of shotguns in the war by responding “IF you catch us in possession”.
@@ma2perdue yeah, said it caused too much "inhumane suffering".
In reality they probably just didnt like how good it was in the trenches
@@ma2perdue Back in WW1. Also, they had already been using gas on the Frontlines.
@@Whin556 I thought the cl gas was the limit & that's what made everyone write an agreement. Thx
so....your telling me it was barrel loaded shrapnel that they complained about? weren't frag grenades already the main AOE?
That there is passion for what you do folks
Funny how the rich thought it was a war crime to aim for the rich guys.
The thing is is you cant EFFECTIVELY charge someone if you cant beat them lmao
Standing in a line waiting to get shot is just insane
Well if they didnt like it they could always go home lol
Funny most of the middle East says that about Americans now
Britisch didnt come to the US, Brits came to north America on British boats allowed by/orderd by the britisch government. Than These brits decided to Revolt.
@@peterthompson5785 well ain't you a hero 👏lol
@@user-ec1dw1dp9u the British? You mean ?lol
@@miketheknife3072 could be worse. I could be american
America: starts war criming before it was even born.
Best comment 👌
Its not a war crime if you win.
Idk genghis khan technically created biological warfare by catapulting corpses into cities he seiged to spread disease. I believe that's a war crime hundreds years prior
Not a war crime if it was never a war crime in the first place
War crimes under modern standards didn't exist in that era.
Armies throughout the world played to win by any means necessary.
That is the main reason empires were able to maintain control of vast territory with no challenge to their authority until the empires became weak enough to be defeated.
Rinse and repeat thousands of years until the wars of the 20th century changed that.
When freedom is on the line. There are no rules.
Those Frontier Riflemen put in the work with their Kentucky rifles.
I love this guys enthusiasm he honestly reminds me of my family members who are marines
"British Empires hate this Trick..."
"13 colonies hates this trick" - Hans Scheider, hessian rifleman
@@TheAdmiral8799 Hessians got smoked after the Delaware Crossing.
@@feudinggreeks3316 Without one prussian dude you would have been smoked
@@TheAdmiral8799 The Battle of Trenton happened before Valley Forge...
@@feudinggreeks3316 luck
Poor gentleman Johnny Burgoyne😂
🇺🇲: "If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German"
🇫🇷: "If it wasn't for us, you wouldn't exist"
Why do you people think that George Washington was completely incapable of running his Rebellion? He literally beat the German mercenaries that were supposedly unbeatable by himself
Don’t forget the Spanish and Dutch empires who also helped USA
Humans trying to make war civilized and proper has to be one of the longest running jokes in our history.
Dude got that R Lee Ermey vibe and cadence
Yes he does!
" sorry your son died in the colonies"
" what? Like a poor person?! This is outrageous!"
Lol
"poor person" if you mean slave soldier then yes
And this is one of the reasons I love America.😂
I like how he acts like he was there
You must love boring lessons.
That's his job?
Like how the British called war crimes with killing officers
Then the Germans complaining about the trench shotgun being inhumane in ww1
During that era, it was an unspoken rule that neither side intentionally shoots at officers. Also when officers were captured they where held for ransom and were relatively treated well
Woody Harrelson's out here delivering History.
We were not ready for this tactic. It caught us off-guard.
And this was the beginning of what we call sniper today
Just a dude all dressed up, hammered drunk, screaming about the revolutionary war. Right on.
As a brit i can confirm that i am happy the colonists didn't discriminate.
Britin: "your commiting a war crime!"
Colonies: "NUH UH!!"
I would love to see how this guy would do checking out a book in a quiet library.
Lol
You know you're in the wrong when you use somebody else's wrong to justify your own
This man embodies the American spirit 🦅🎆
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard like three separate quotes that perfectly encapsulate the whole “it turns into a brawl”/ “great! That’s exactly what we want!” thing from several US generals and officers pre 1960s
Credit to him; the lad knows how to project his voice 😌👌
Jeager? Bro that quest line is fun
I think its just a war rule of "lets accuse them of something before doing it ourselves."
Or the cheater calling their opponent a cheater.
How dare you shoot at important targets, those things are important!
“Where is your power armor!?”
If Gunny was born during the Revolutionary War
😂
Glad to see ya back, Gunny.
“WHERE IS YOUR POWDERED WIG AND KENTUCKY RIFLE SOLDIER?!?!? YOU DON’T HAVE IT? NO, YOU LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF CONTINENTAL ARMY KIT! THATS COMING OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK!!!”
I know warfare has always been brutal, but can you imagine fighting in a conflict where you genuinely felt honor-bound to not strike down enemy officers????
Thank you for the history lesson ☺️🇺🇸
Riflemen and light infantry were nearly always distinguished or professional marksmen
They could fire beyond decent musket range ( around 400 metres )
And get the hit rate of a musket at around 250 metres
When at musket range they could take out captains to hamper enemy fire ( so their firepower starts trickling without co ordination )
Could take out majors ( hampers co ordination between companies so harder to get flanked )
And if the genral was close enough some shots could be taken at him to get him to cower or stay back and harm co ordination between grenadiers, line infantry and light infantry
In skirmishes rifles provided an obvious advantage but they were even worse at holding ground than shorter rifles ir even good musket marksmanship due to the difficulty of loading the tighter and obstructing rifled bore
British: "YoU cAn'T sHoOt OuR oFfIcErS tHaTs A wArCrImE!"
Colonies: "L + Skill Issue + Seethe Whigs"
This Dude Looks Like Somebody Gave Randy Quaid a musket😂😂😂
"What we told our RRAAAIIFLEMAN! was..."
😮 He has a real army sgt sound.