British Soldiers in Action at Fort Henry, Kingston

[WW2AirSofters]

martini-henrys?

[planetrockford]

Sweet

[LolFishFail]

Looks like they are Welsh Guards.

[artstudent07]

Sounds like a woman shouting orders at them lol!

[thokih1]

is this were pirates of the carrabien was recorded lol...

[GREATBRITISHGAMER]

America can't deny they copied their training from us...

[GoolyBG]

what weapon are they using they reload too fast so the brown bess is out could those be snider enfields or enfield rifle muskets

[zhengguoguangxi]

开枪后应该有很大的烟雾，但也许是火药当中采用了一部分的无烟火­药，所以场景没那么好

[AngryBroomHandler]

@zhengguoguangxi I think it was alright regardless of the small amount of smoke.

[16lydgate]

@Markgoodall..yes but the tactic was to fire by company, single volley to put as much lead into the advancing enemy in hope the impact into the front ranks would faulter their advance then a company would fire by rank.

[markgoodall]

a bad drill. first rank fires then the second fires putting down half the fire but it is then always constant.

[Bmon44444]

@markgoodall a good drill. We dont use muskets so we dont need to fire at different intervals we can load quick enough so that we can all fire at the same time. If we wanted constant fire it would be file firing tactics are different than they wouldve been during the napoleonic wars. Better luck next time

[TomHartill]

@markgoodall - Thats incorrect. The rank which fired was completely dependent on the situation. It was VERY common for 3 ranks to fire all at once.

[raumfd613]

@markgoodall Actually both ways were used. The method you discribe is firing by rank. The unit here is using Volley fire which would deliver one massed volley causing sudden damage to the enemy ranks adding to confusion and lower morale. There was also firing by company and by file all of which had it's own uses on the battlefield.

[TheGunner1324]

@markgoodall mo, thats fire by rak where the rank fires then the rank behind and so forth, this is a volley, please get it right.

[puppydogcedric]

We represent the British soldiers of 1867.

[Hauser3309]

From the size and shape of the shakos, and the badge and hackle on them, these look to be British line infantry from around the mid-19th century, some years after the Napoleonic Wars. A good drill nonetheless though.

[thehaterfromthehood2]

@Hauser3309 the Guard represents the British soldiers in Canada in 1867 when Canada became a country

[ginjaninja1988]

These soldiers are not from the Napoleonic age. Rather the mid 19th century.

[ApproachWithCaution]

The good old days. We need another war with France for the lulz.

[Probablyacowtbh]

@ApproachWithCaution I suppose they have been getting a bit feisty lately.

[ColdRicki]

@ApproachWithCaution totally agree, it was a funny war, englishmen argues with frenchman, best argument in the world

[Bendbow]

The British square was used right up to the Boer war in the 1890's. The Fort Henry Guard represents the the British military as it was in around he time of the Crimean war in the mid 1850's some 30years after the first Napoleon and 20 years before the last of the Napoleons. The last time i know of the square was used was in the 1980's in the Canadian army on a wilderness hike . Bears approached from both the rear and the front forcing the only gun passed back and forth. no bears were harmed !