What Captain Rodney Wrote—December 24, 1776

Conservative Right Wing News ^ | December 24, 2018 | Jeffrey A Friedberg

[marktwain]

Has possibilities, but comes across as unfinished, leaving everything hanging.

[ConservativeMind]

Reading this reminds me we had two wars in which England invaded the US (even torching our White House), then we fought WW I and WW II to save them.

Why shouldn’t that country be nuked?

[Chainmail]

Revolutionary War Ping

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Truthoverpower]

Excelente
From valley forge !

[SunkenCiv]

[Grimmy]

The Thomas account is what I refer to as “the grunt’s eye view”.

In that view, everything is wrong. Leadership has no clue. All is always lost. Everyone’s gonna die. It’s all mud and blood for no good gain.

[SunkenCiv]

Ya don't have to like it, ya just have ta do it.

[Grimmy]

And every good infantry commander knows that if the troops ain’t complaining out loud then they’re planning mutiny on the quiet.

[Grimmy]

Oh, and...

Merry Christmas!

[21twelve]

The rest of the story is on the link. (That is a REALLY long excerpt!)

[21twelve]

Sorry - the complete article at the link also leaving it hanging. Although I guess we all know how it ended. (Except that I thought the Hessians WERE drunk!?)

[Chainmail]

An interesting effort but a bit hokey: the main force in the Christmas Eve battle for Trenton were Continentals, not militia, the .75 caliber Brown Bess musket weighs 10.5 pounds, not 12 (and was not usually used by militia) and no, the Hessian mercenaries were not "super soldiers" that could fire a smoothbore musket "four or five times a minute" (well-trained men could load and fire one 3 times a minute max).

Whoever wrote this rather breathy piece of fiction needs to be better informed.

P.S., The term "sniper" is from far into the future.

[RArtfulogerDodger]

You got it right! :)

[RArtfulogerDodger]

Eggzackly! :)

[RArtfulogerDodger]

THIS IS JUST A SMALLISH PART of what you **don’t** know; i can’t bother with ALL the rest of it, vato. :)

RevolutionaryWarJournal.Com:

“The preferred choice of musket, (also labeled as flintlock, firelock, or smoothbore) in the British Army and subsequently in the American Army during the American Revolution was the Brown Bess. “Rugged, simple, sturdy, and terrible at close quarters”, when fired (if it fired), this smooth bore (grove bored were ‘rifled muskets’, later simply called rifles), hurtled a round ball weighing about fourteen to the pound. For all the legends and discussion on the musket’s firing power, it was basically a handle for a bayonet – its’ most destructive and fearful advantage on the battlefield...”

[sailor76]

Why shouldn’t that country be nuked?
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Ah, one of the few who actually understands. These people have never been our friends, we have allowed them to use us, and they repay us by spreading not true freedom, but by spreading a leftist globalist agenda that is the opposite of true freedom.

[RArtfulogerDodger]

WOW, EVERYTHING YOU APPARENTLY **DON’T** KNOW IS JUST, LIKE, WELL, ALL DEPRESSING AND STUFF.... :(

REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOCKET BAYONET:

http://www.collegehillarsenal.com

“WEIGHT: 2 LBS.”

[Alas Babylon!]

The American Army, also known as Continentals, were NOT the same as the Militia.

Indeed, the Continentals (American Army) had the Brown Bess, but Militia, such as your Thomas, did not. They had whatever firearms of the time that a man could afford.

So in this regard, Chainmail is correct.