For me, I’d say it was Trenton rather than Lexington and Concord
It was a completely insane plan that shouldn’t have stood even a remote chance of success and yet, somehow, the Continental Army beat the odds and triumphed
What was the most?
For me, I’d say it was Trenton rather than Lexington and Concord
It was a completely insane plan that shouldn’t have stood even a remote chance of success and yet, somehow, the Continental Army beat the odds and triumphed
>Hessians have intelligence that an attack will occur
>Random 50 man American detachment not aware of Washington's plan attack an outpost of the Hessians
>Washington yells at the men for alerting the Hessians and ruining the attack
>Hessians think this is the attack they were warned about and let down their guards
and so began the American practice of not knowing what we're doing to prevent the enemy from knowing what we're doing
moravian massacre
Kings Mountain
>Ferguson thinks he's hot shit and starts threatening the Appalachian settlers and calling them barbarians
>Mountain men get mad and come from hundreds of miles away just to kill him
>they find him and his men camped out on an unfortified hill
>sneak up to within firing range and immediately start shooting and screaming their heads off
>the Brits (mostly Tories actually) manage to fix bayonets and charge 3 times, but the Overmountain Men just run deeper into the woods and come back once the Brits return to their lines
>Ferguson and several officers try to break through on horse back and are killed
>Brits try to surrender but the Overmountain Men keep killing them anyways
>eventually some of the Patriot officers run forward and accept the surrender so they killing will stop
>nearly 300 Brits are killed and the 150 some wounded are left to die on the field
>the other 650 or so are marched back to Patriot camps, but most of them escape because the majority of the Overmountain Men headed back home as soon as the battle ended
Losing Ferguson was such a blow that Cornwallis had to retreat back to South Carolina and wouldn't return to North Carolina until Greene's victory at Cowpens forced him to. It also ended Loyalist support in the Carolinas.
In the end, Ferguson was right. We are barbarians here in the mountains, but frick you for saying it.
Rob is that you?
Came here to say this. Literal army of guys show up innawoods and win battle. Promptly go back innawoods.
Battle of Bennington
Utterly insane.
Brits were massacred. They decided to go into new England woods and be buttholes.
Goddam I want a Ferguson rifle
Huh. Weird design but I guess in the early days when they were still figuring things out it was still an improvement. I hadn't heard of this before
It's one of the better pre-cartridge designs, but definitely expensive and complicated to make.
yes its super fun, tossed one of the flints from it onto Ferguson's cairn as well
The Rifle Shoppe makes kits to assemble your own. Pretty spendy.
Did you nab that from TRS? Can't get them to answer a phone or email.
yeah, mine was a TRS kit that surprisingly only took a few weeks for them to ship to me. Just keep calling them during business hours or leave a message. Alternatively, you can give Kashtuk $5k and he will procure a kit from them and build it for you. ymmv with lead times from TRS with either option
Am I a brainlet? How does this work??
It unscrews and you load it from the breech.
Oh baby that's sexy, thank you anon
Oh baby that's sexy, thank you anon
Pretty cool that Fergy kept two prostitutes in his tent
Died with drip, too.
But frick the crown
Should've sent his severed head back to the Bongs with his prick stuffed in his mouth.
The following rebellions that forced the ivory-tower founding fathers to scrap the articles of confederation and write an actual constitution, which survives to this day.
I mean, they managed to almost collapse the young federation with their moronicness, but fortunately the common man rose up to wake up them from their bullshit-sniffing stupor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion
Should have cleared out the ir*sh menace after this
The Constitution was a mistake. Hamilton should have been hanged from an oak tree
You could always put down a deposit on a mortgage for a London apartment and make your way across the ocean to depart the land of the free and the home of the brave. You have that freedom, to not only share your thoughts on the Constitution, but to take your sorry loyalist ass to Buckingham Palace.
>loyalist
You are severely confused. I am an anti-Federalist(technically the term should have been Federalist instead of anti-Federalist, and the Federalists should have been called the Unitarists, but I digress)
Lexington and Concord because they were history's greatest examples of gun grabbing fedboys getting blasted in human history.
Remember! This country was founded on murdering uniformed officers of the law carrying out their legal duty.
>m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶
killing tbh
Indeed, it is war. In arms, organized into the thousands, engaging in mutual combat. It's not organized crime, it's armed insurrection. The Patriots drained their will to fight, the Whigs in London called in the counter-insurgency after years, then the Americans took over. Public support won the American Revolution, not weapons and tactics. Public support is actually what mostly decides wars. The actual physical fighting is a smaller part in the grand scheme, but it must be accounted for effectively and with detail. It is the part that gets all the public focus as well.
>Public support is actually what mostly decides wars.
Modern wars, and the American Revolution is a modern war by historical accounts. Rifles and artillery.
The Patriots were champions of the people, their rights, their freedom, their future. The Patriots fought for the people, the oppressor fought to keep the people down. They had the high ground and the moral law, and thus public support, and thus victory. They were the local boys, the occupiers were punching down from a position of immense global power.
An obese bookstore owner with zero military experience was charged by Washington with transporting thousands of pounds in stolen British artillery from upstate New York to Boston in a time where the roads were “lmao” tier.
And it WORKED.
I wish I had time to give it the proper “drun/k/ history greentext” treatment, Henry Knox was fricking based and I’m glad the gold depository is named after him. I’d think he’d be proud to know how we honored him
>stolen British artillery
If it's public property and the public is using it, it's not really stolen now is it?
To be fair the Green Mountain Boys unalived the previous owners
The visual of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold racing up the staircases of duplicate buildings to try to capture Ticonderoga's commander first will never not make me smile
Britgay here, I have stayed in Concord and found the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery very interesting, usually you don't see tombstones so old in the USA. I had no idea at the time how significant the cemetery was, it just caught my eye while there.
My little town in central mass has hand hewn tombstones dating back to the end of the 17th century. Lots of dead children and women who died in childbirth. Some deaths at the hands of Indians too. It’s in a quiet spot hidden from the road behind the main cemetery.
I live 30 min from sleepy hollow, I’ve visited on occasion, would not have thought it was a place for tourists to visit
When Lighthorse Lee dressed his troopers up as Britoid cavalry, and had the Britoids parade march between two columns of them, before hacking them all to pieces with sabers.
Still warms my heart to this day
I think he had a gambling problem and retired in the Caribbean to hide from his creditors too
The whole Saratoga campaign was breddy based.
BASED
Bennington was such a slaughter.
>take fortified hill with no quarter in intense heat
>devour all of the limeys' rum rations instead of water in a couple of hours
>have to repulse a massive Hunnic assault on the same hill you just took, stone drunk
>win again
God bless Benedict Arnold’s leg.
The only part of him that didn't deserve the rope.
To be honest, if other people didn't keep taking credit for his victories while forcing him to take credit for other's frick ups it never would have happened.
His wife was already a glowie.
It was only a matter of time.
Trenton turned morale around and pulled in a ton of recruits, after their defeats in New York. I don't have a single favorite moment, but the whole idea of a bunch of everyday people getting together in arms to overcome the most powerful military force in the world is deeply inspiring.
Washington, Washington
Six foot eight, weighs a fricking ton
Opponents beware, opponents beware
He's coming, he's coming, he's coming
Let me lay it on line, he had two on the vine
I mean two sets of testicles, so divine
On a horse made of crystal he patrolled the land
With the mason ring and schnauzer in his perfect hands
Here comes George, in control
Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll
Ate opponents brains, and invented cocaine
He's coming, he's coming, he's coming
Sue me if I go too fast
But the sons of his opponents wish that he was their dad
Got a wig for his wig, got a brain for his heart
He'll kick you apart, he'll kick you apart
He'll save children but not the British children
He'll save children but not the British children
He'll save children but not the British children
He'll save children but not the British children
He had a pocket full of horses, fricked the shit out of bears
He threw a knife into heaven, and could kill with a stare
He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky
Killed his sensei in a duel and he never said why
Did I mention his four nuts? Well he also had four dicks
If you took of his boot you'd see the dicks growing off his feet
I heard that motherfricker had like... thirty goddamn dicks
He once held an opponent's wife's hand... in a jar of acid... at a party
Prime lyrical genius, anon.
>heavy breathing
For me its Quebec
The continental congress tried to "free" the quebecois without guaranteeing the catholic emancipation and regional autonomy that Britain had given them then they wondered why their army got killed by french volunteers and their indian allies. They tried another Operation Quebeci Freedom in 1812 and got attacked by Canadian voltigeurs.
Not having Canada is the best thing to ever happen to America.
Tbqh
Canada would be California 2: Electric Boogaloo and I shudder to contemplate what US history would be like with them as states.
>Canada cried to daddy brittain for protection in both cases
FTFY
An unruly mob of Fennians tried to take Canada ransom in exchange for Irish independence. Twice.
can't say they weren't determined in their cause
>The continental congress tried to "free" the quebecois
Damn, I REALLY wish they'd pulled that off.
>Make thread about 1776
>leaf enters thread
>MUH 1812
Like fricking clockwork.
not a leaf 🙁
I just think quebec has a neat history even if their present condition is as rednecks who speak incomprehensible french.
Brandywine was a pretty brilliant plan by the Brits and a great example of maneuver in the late 18th century.
During the siege of Charleston there were some really cool sniper duals between the Americans and Jaegers.
Any defeat Washington can make an orderly retreat from, aint a victory for the crown
John Paul Jones was playing GTA 1776 IRL and everyone else in the entire war was an NPC.
>Join Navy because you're totally not wanted for several murders and a fugitive from justice or anything
>Radically bullshit your resume and get command of a "frigate"
>It's rotten, leaking, obsolete French POS actively sinking before even sighting a RN vessel
>Frick it we ball
>Circumnavigate the UK in this shit bucket, taking prizes and pulling 1/2 of the Atlantic squadron into a Benny Hill chase when the public freaks out about it
>Get a map from locals you kidnapped on shore expeditions of all the nobilities houses and break in and steal all their liquor and silverware. b***hes love silverware
>Always leave your gamertag behind after you ransacked the place
>Finally get cornered by the bongs and forced into battle while outnumbered and extremely drunk
>Make da boys chug 2 pints of rum to suppress any b***h behavior then break the colors, beat to quarters, and run out the guns
>OH SHIT ITS THE NEWEST MOST ADVANCED SHIP IN THE ENTIRE RN
>Shitbucket self sinking intensifies
>Your escorting frigate fires one broadside into you, one into the British, then nopes out
>The crew of larceous alcoholics you've put together (mostly by kidnapping them lmao) pounds the SERAPHIS but things are not looking good and the bong orders you to surrender because you're sinking and a little bit on fire and for some reason naked
>RAM THAT BOIPUSSY
>Boarding parties away, Chad Yankee warcrimals absolutely buck break the limeys in hand to hand and capture the pride of the Royal Navy
>Bohomme Richard sinks in the middle of this with a wet French queefing sound
>Take your fancy new Frigate on an extended booze cruise
>War ends, you're immediately fired for being a legendary degenerate
>Work as a mercenary for about 6 different countries, die penniless
>Nationalism Tech has been researched in the USA so your body is found in a paupers grave, given a supremely extra sarcophagus and repatriated to the USA, and you're reinterred at the Naval Academy in a tomb that's literally a full bathtub of top shelf brandy
>The entire wall of the crypt is lined with the swords and flags of captains and ships you defeated
A more Chad American has never existed
don't forget
>lost his job in the russian navy for raping (hiring?) a ten year old (twelve year old?) girl (hooker?)
I remember hearing vaguely about this wild frick, holy shit.
Rockstar is too fricking pozzed to make this game and we'll never get a movie about a guy like this these days.
also from similar time period and area of scotland
>Thomas Cochrane the Seawolf aka the real Horatio Hornblower who also got fired by his nation despite being an amazing captain and ended fighting for Chile.
>John Campbell who went from impressed sailor to Lt during Lord Anson's 1 man war against the entire pacific ocean and was later a Vice Admiral.
John Paul Jones is a Pirate!
No loyalty does he posses
Keep it up we’ll catch the pirate!
And sink him along with the rest!
Wrong
Well John Paul Jones was a fightin' man a fightin' man was he
He sailed to the east and he sailed to the west and he helped set America free
>Russians
>Jesus man she was 10
>Jpj
>Oh come on she said she was 12
10 year olds, dude
Didn't he also get kicked out of the Russian navy for raping ten year old girls?
Isaac Horton
>Get impressed into British Navy.
>Frick this shit.
>As soon as land is in sight, jumps ship and swim to shore.
>Still_mad.gif
>Join the Revolution, suffer through Valley Forge, and after the war, build a comfy fronteir home in the western edge of the Tennessee Territory
Tangentially related, how is the American Revolution taught to Br*tish children? Are they taught their ancestors were a bunch of b***hes and that's why they are the cucks they are today?
In Arabic
Mashallah my brother
>by Allah the crown should have lowered taxes, because they didn't we have to suffer the Great Satan
>How did the Americans achieve such an unlikely victory? Why, through Jihad, of course.
Under fricking rated
In schools? It isn't taught
Its a minor footnote from what I here . I mean in all fairness they were at war with many people and the American colonies weren't really important to them .
>It wasn't really important
>Engaged in an eight year long war to hold onto something that wasn't important.
>rebelling against your elected government
>government moves to disarm you and you fight back
I'm surprised that Nu-/k/ isn't anti American revolution considering how much they are boot lickers today and if you ever talk bad about a western government you're a VatBlack person/jeet shill.
Glad that there are a lot of normal people left who hate government overreach.
But to answer your question OP, John Paul Johns taking the HMS Serapis
"Nu/k/" is just tourists gayging around in their own threads mostly.
>rebelling against your elected government
>elected
?
Timothy Murphy killing Gen. Fraser at Saratoga.
From 400 yards away.
Using iron sights.
The iron sights of a blackpowder hunting rifle.
Thats insane. What was the moa spead on those things?
If you're skilled? Three or so. Longrifles can be remarkably accurate.
Thats surprisingly accurate
I think the longest recorded sniping incident pre-minie ball was a French general and his AdC killed at 600 yards with a Baker rifle. plenty people couldn't replicate that with an AR-15.
A major difference between a AR and a blackpowder rifle is that the blackpowder rifle ball never breaks the sound barrier and due to this dosen't experience turbulence from the sonic pressure wave catching up to the bullet. Subsonic firearms can be shockingly accurate, a buffalo hunter named Billy Dixon with a Sharp's killed a Comanche with a single shot during the seige of Adobe Walls at a range of 1500 yards.
Whether or not you break the sound barrier with a musketball depends entirely on charge and projectile weight. Not only could musketballs break the sound barrier, muzzle velocities upwards of mach 1.5 were not unheard of for heavier powder loadings, with mach 2 being set as a theoretical maximum using an extremely high charge of very good quality powder.
Could it be said that John Paul Jones was like the American equivalent of Ozzy D. but less rapey and more competrnt?
>Ozzy D.
Are you... talking about Dirlewanger?
Use context clues to figure it out you fricking dumbass. I swear, you homosexuals get dumber every year.
Ozzy Dosbourne, dumbass
I swear, you homosexuals get dumber every year.
Dirlewanger didn't take a wizz on the Alamo
>It was a completely insane plan that shouldn’t have stood even a remote chance of success
What do you mean? Other underdogs like the LTTE have pulled off similar even in the modern era
It is weird that Washington didn’t continue fighting battles like Trenton and Princeton as overrunning important bases and detachments too far from quick support would have worked better than pitched battles against crack armies
Its criminal that the Sri Lankan civil war doesn't receive as much attention for the crazy shit that went down
This was in the war of 1812 but I’m posting it anyways because I thought it was a part of the revolutionary war until I just now checked.
>be William Wade
>captain the chasseur (French for hunter)
>gain letter of marque from the United States Government to engage in privateering for profit (ie: piracy)
>evade English blockade and harrass their ships in the Caribbean, taking six prizes with only your one ship, burn 5 others.
>sail to England by yourself now under the command of Thomas Boyle.
>be Thomas Boyle
>capture an English merchant ship and send him back off with a message directly to King George
>declare that the whole of England is now under blockade by Chasseur alone
>cause the British merchant shipping community to collectively ship bricks and beg the Navy to bring ships away from the Americas and back to England to protect them
>they do this, weakening the naval forces left on the US coastline
>leave and laugh your ass off before any of them show up to fight you.
>take one more English ship that tried to ambush you as a prize before you get home
>American hero, dab on the crown
God I love this country.
If you're going 1812 it's hard to beat Old Ironsides which made more than 170 port calls to refill its beer and liquor stocks over a 2 year war cruise and returned to Baltimore with the water casks (still sealed) at the same level they were when she weighed anchor to posterize the Br*ts
>get sloshed
>go on murderous booze-cruise
>repeatedly best the Limeys in single-ship combat
>live oak makes you almost invulnerable
>Connie is heavily overgunned for a frigate
>secure your place in history and remain on navy registry to this day
Don't forget designed by a pacifist. (Spoiler, big oops)
And my tisms won't let me allow this to slide but "Connie" is the nickname for USS CONSTELLATION ie "The Yankee Racehorse" and by far the fastest of the six Humphrey frigates, not USS CONSTITUTION. I am only pedantic about it because CONSTELLATION is my favorite
I slept on the Constellation. We had a food fight with drunks on my watch at 2am
Don't forget, she had a fricking black powder machine gun on her masts
She's a fine ship, but most of the heavy lifting during that war was done by sloops of war like the Wasp or by privateers. For most of 1813 she didn't even sail.
You could argue that the War r 1812 was an extension of the Revolutionary War in once again defending ourselves from British tyranny
Ultimately, they were fighting against an oppressor, and had the moral high ground.
More than tactics and weapons was this public support, fighting for the people, not the elites.
Wars can be decided before they even begin, whether or not we realize it until afterwards.
And this has a lot to do with the moral law, with public support, with loyalty and victory.
With public support, you fight as long as it takes, and you always have willing men.
Public support is tied to the moral law, and in this land that is Christianity.
The American Revolution was incited by Christian preachers.
They denounced the tyranny of the state, called for revolt.
Invading Canada.
One more thread for warriortard/armatard to spams his divide and conquer?
>obvious false flag post
meds
When George Washington's cousin, Bill rode up on a retreating (general?) Killed 1 of his guards with a sword, a ~10 year old bugle boy shot the other, then Bill cut 2 of the generals fingers off and let him go. (Also Bill washi goons forces captured or killed 100% of the other British soldiers)
>What was the most PrepHole moment of the American Revolution?
What are some good books on the Revolution? Where did you learn these cool stories?
The founding of the Springfield Armory (not the modern company) by George Washington.
bump
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/08/maryland-battle-brooklyn-sacrifice-american-300/
America’s 300 Moment: The Maryland Spartans Who Saved Washington’s Army
The Marylanders saved Washington’s Army — and, perhaps, the United States.
Picrel is a book about them.
Since no one mentioned Cowpens yet, pulling off a Hannibal tier double envelopment using mostly militia.