By the time it was over, 3,000 angry Colonists firing from the woods on the Redcoat column as they marched back from Lexington. Of 700 Redcoats, 200+ casualties. Especially vulnerable were British Officers on horseback.
How ungentlemanly.
Yeah, the whole march towards an enemy and get mowed down is the sort of tactics employed by those telling other people’s kids to fight and die for them. It’s why the flintlocks and muskets, despite being actually inferior to the longbow for many years, were so popular: they were cheap and it was realatively easy to train some kid from a city to line up and use one. Compared to the relatively high value archers the musketmen were expendable to their lords and masters.
Of course the Militiamen didn’t consider themselves expendable....
Imagine that scenario with modern precision rifles in the hands of the Colonists.
“Especially vulnerable were British Officers on horseback.”
Now they ride in MRAPs. We have gasoline bombs.
Top priority targets are THOSE WHO GIVE THE ORDERS, whether in the field or sitting in an office somewhere.