From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 30 20:32: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A095E37B744 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 18938 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2000 04:32:05 -0000 Received: from du211140.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.211.140) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 2000 04:32:05 -0000 Message-ID: <38E42A11.9D0C27C5@mail.ptd.net> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:31:13 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] References: <20000329133624.5372F37B55A@hub.freebsd.org> <20000330203039.D20275@wallnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher S. Weimann" wrote: > > He should also add rifles to the Revolutionaries. They probobly had > some of the best marksmen in the world since they grew up using guns > of some sort or another (one of the advantages of an armed society.) > These early rifles had much better range and accuracy than the muskets > carried by the British and we actually had an advantage in that respect. > They used the improved accuracy and range to target British officers > before they were in muskerange which made the rifle a pretty effective > terror weapon. It was however much slower to load which made the > rifleman very vulnerable so they were kept behind the normal troops. > Riflemen would more usually be in front as skirmishers, until the opposing force got too close, at which time the skirmishers retired. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message