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Guerilla Warfare During The Revolutionary War

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America has evolved quite a bit in the last two hundred years, alog with that , the way we fight wars has also changed. During the revolutionary war, the two opposing parties would stand on an open field in lines and take shots at each other. The rebelling colonists did use guerilla warfare quite often though. Guerilla warfare is when a fighting force uses stealth and ambush attacks to beat the enemy. During this time, themain weapon of choice for bothsides was the flintlock musket. According to revolutarionary archives.org "Tactics of this era sought to simply blast their opponents off of the battlefield with concetrated musket fire." This type of combat was used through the 18th century and most of the 19th century. During the Civil
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