Battle Road

[TheCelticmaori]

mate u were really brave to be frontline journalist back in those days 

[EJLSWE]

I like how the English are in cover behind the stone wall, looks great, also the setting is just superb for this "battle". Autumn leaves (or Fall, as they would say in America) and lots of smoke from the rifles, a bit foggy, very nice atmosphere indeed must have been a blast being there.

[Redcoat66]

C'mon you reds!!!!!!! Look pretty well fed for the dregs of England! Make no mistake people, they had to scrape the bottom of the barrell for recruits to fight in America! Read Mark urban's 'Fusiliers' for a British perspective of the AWI. Superb book!!!!! Gareth Ishmael BA War Studies: King's College London 1996-99, and damned proud of it too!!!!!!

[daviddavio]

are you asking why are they shooting each other,the anwer is ,it is one of the first battle of the revolutionary war in 1776,which is the war that we fought england for our [united states] indepence

[L00K4CASH]

what do they shoot at each other??

[FinalFreek]

@L00K4CASH just powder and paper wadding there's no lead bullet.

[onionhead007]

OMFG HOW THE FLIP DID YOU GO BACK IN TIME AND TAKE A CAMERA DOES THE GOVERMENT KNOW ABOUT THIs?!

[HistoryWeekly]

Man all you need is 1.21 gigawatts, some plutonium, and a car that goes 88mph. Just watch out for those pesky Libyans!

[historygenius]

IT'S AMAZING!!!!!

[Beastlyblu]

@onionhead007 Yeah, I know! that is so weird! Don't tell them. Maybe you could help the Americans and get them some rocket launchers or something. :P

[strummerlv]

wrong britain marched to concord searching for militia supplies on the town green yes britain came out the victor but at the north bridge and on britains march back to boston they got there ass's handed to them till they reached charlestown

[scotlandforever321]

I didn't think that film had enough action. And britain kicked yank arse at that battle. My apologies to all you yanks oot there, but it's true.

[TheLhawk1]

@scotlandforever321 were not yanks and we are in the greatest country in the world all scotland is is land of the plaid and its not arse u stupid retard its ass

[Hewalog]

@scotlandforever321 You better check your sources. The Brits ran back to Boston like a bunch of skirt wearing Scots, screaming the whole way!

[libertarian93]

@Hewalog he is kindof right they beat us at lexington but then we started picking them off one by one on battle road until charlseton where westopped them at the bridge and then had them running until boston where they beat us at bunker hill then they had to evacuate becouse they were outnumbered.

[Salvus967]

@Hewalog Actually, the march back to Boston would have been an exhausting and terrifying experience for the British soldiers, as the entire countryside rose up against them. So it's rather disrespectful to dismiss them as simple cowards. They were fighting for thier very lives the whole way back, some locals felt the brunt of thier desperation aswell, as terrified and enraged Redcoats stormed some of the houses closest to the road where sniper fire was coming from.

[Salvus967]

@Salvus967 They did make it back to Boston however, thanks to the timely arrival of re-enforcements. The experience would have been similar to that felt by the American soldiers during the Mogadishu crisis with the downed Black Hawks. The citizens of the 13 colonies were not, however, uncivilized animals like the Somalis were (infact people living in the 13 colonies were considered fellow Englishman for the most part. But the situations WERE similar.

[joshyrocks13]

lol they went back in time

[britishmen]

those redcoats look cool

[zama202bc]

Christ! the Continentals got a good and proper shafting here. Didn't the Hessians surround the Americans and bayonet them all to death?

[roydosan]

No because they didn't arrive in America until a year later.

[homie617]

Zama are the hessians Germans?

[zama202bc]

I beleieve so. They were recruited from Hesse Cassel in Germany. 31% of the King's forces in America were from Germany. Originally, the British were going to hire Russians. I may be wrong.

[libertarian93]

@zama202bc i beleive your right but did you know that at valley forge washington hired the fired general carl von clausewitz, he was germanies greatest general at the time but was fired for being gay, and washington hired him to train the soldiers. he is one of the main reasons of why we won the war and he wrote americas military syllabus

[Redcoat66]

@libertarian93

I think you mean Von Steuben! Von Clausewits wrote Vom Krieg (On War) and was captured by Napoleons forces. I believe the story goes that Washington caught Von Steuben bumming some of the American soldiers and then bummed him in turn! Von Steuben was 'bent for the rent' all through the revolutionary War. I may be wrong.

[libertarian93]

@Redcoat66 why did i say clausewitz your right he was kicked out of the prussian army and washington braught him to valley forge to train the guys and he wrote our military doctrine after

[philsfan33]

this sucked