From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 30 1:11:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chalfont.mail.easynet.net (chalfont.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33EB37B711 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from fink (tnt-20-134.easynet.co.uk [212.134.226.134]) by chalfont.mail.easynet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id EA46CF84E3; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:11:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <001d01bf9a27$80532d40$1c021740@cian.net> Reply-To: From: To: "Jay Nelson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and"dangers to BSD"] Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:08:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > [snip] > > >1776: > > British Army: muskets and cannon. > > Revolutionaries: muskets. > > You should probably add to that, the mortars, frigates and lancers for > the British of that time. You should perhaps _more_ importantly note the age of the British fleet of that time, not it's size. The Revolutionary fleet was brand-spanking-new. The equivalent of sending a W.W.I battleship up against the New Jersey ....... it was a damn brave show by the British navy to fight, knowing as they did so, that they confronted a better armed, better motivated and (sadly for them) frequently better led naval enemy. This of course not to detract from the sound arse-whooping the Brits received on more than a couple of occasions. Mind you, the white house was torched in all this somewhere :) ... bet that's not happened for a while. CR > > > not too inequal > > > >1999: > > British Army: tanks, arty, rifles > > Revolutionaries: rifles. > > You should also add the squad machine guns, mortars, C4, Apaches and > Claymores for todays British. > > > ouch. > > > > trying to fight against a combined arms unit with only rifles > >is a real bear. > > Most of the tactical weapons are useless in a guerrilla action, which > is why there will always be men in the mud. > > With greater odds, Victor Charlie cleaned our collective clock. > Logical assumptions get you killed in a fight, no matter which side > you're on. > > -- Jay > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message