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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
Let's not quibble about colors, the main point being differences in what was considered "cricket" on the battlefield. Anyway, I learned history in the US so I can pretty much assume that 90% of what I was taught was patent fabrication while the other 10% was merely erroneous.
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Ha!
Fair enough. But: for the record, that kind of elegant warfare approach was reserved strictly for fighting other big European nations *grins*
The guerilla skills were definately something the army wasn't used to fighting. Although they did have some experience in less standard fighting tactics, that experience had been a generation earlier. Pretty much standard experience for the british army during this period was recruitment during conflict and near total disbandment during peace time. Consequently, when a new conflict arose, they had to learn to fight as an army all over again. Every time.