Tactics Used in American Revolution

Tactics Used in American Revolution

Background

One of the questions which people ask most frequently about the American Revolution is that "Why did the Revolutionary War soldiers stand in straight lines like so many targets?" Answering this question is not as easy as answering any other question. The war soldiers were engaged in exercising battlefield tactics; the tactics which were formulated keeping in view number of factors. As more important ones, these factors included the weaponry employed by said troops the number of troops available and terrain.

In the Seventeenth century, a wide array of new weapons were developed ...