On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:02 pm, Kevin Elliott wrote: > Correction in the interest of historical accuracy. The idea that we > succeeded in the revolutionary war by "inventing a new form of > warfare". The reality is that the british were marching in formation > for very, very good reasons. Their tactics were an early form of > Napoleanic tactics (the techniques perfected by Bonaparte and used to > SMASH most of the rest of Europe). They evolved from several factors > notably: That is very interesting and smells true. But I have read an historical account of how we slaughtered the "Reds" from the hills as they marched. Seems to be a contradiction here that I can't resolve. -- Mike Diehl PGP Encrypted E-mail preferred. Public Key via: http://dominion.dyndns.org/~mdiehl/mdiehl.asc