We set aside our political issues from. The next couple weeks his military history. Here is the thing. There are certain challenges they are going to encounter. What are some the things you can see them having problems with . What the end up doing, theyre the ones that miss out. Unless you are doing civil war. This is the way it usually works. Usually get their perspective. We will see that a lot in this world. You have a lot of the patriots stop. One the reasons i had to read the free chapter we see get the british perspective. The version is a little bit different. There was not a lot of certainty with whom one what battle. You run into some uncertainties. Again, lots of different perspectives. You may have some bias. They like to make themselves look good. You have to be really careful. You know you do not take everything that faced by. He also had to be careful with the military guys. Anything else . Also have issues with how theyre trying to reconstruct the battle. So much is going on and there is so much chaos. People are shooting. It is very chaotic. Yes youre going to have certain objectives you want to obtain. Like we were talking about with the battle of bunker hill. One . They take the field but the higher county. We are going to run into that a lot. Battles are challenging. Were not really sure how things change it. Everybodys perspective is different depending on where youre at. Version is going to be a whole lot different than a general sitting on a horseback on a hill. Anything else . Differences on how battles are fought every time. You have to remember the time period. This is something we will mention several times today. You have to remember the time period. What year is it . Were in 1976. Where she going to back it up in here. Let me get is going. 76 or 75. That is where we at. You need to remember what people wear. What people carry. How to use this. What you can do. Otherwise, it is just not going to happen. Thinking backwards. This is early modern era. We have much more in common with those folks. That anybody else that has come in here. A lot of changes. Have not heard of it but do not know what it is about. Remember your time period. Very close combat. On that kind of gets to. That will be really important as well. The good thing about military history is that it is becoming really popular nowadays. The on the up and up. Forcefully, you have been in some sort of military conflict a whole lot. This is one thing you are accustomed to. Part of everyday life. That is a good thing for military historians. It makes it much more popular. This is not a subject you could talk about. It is getting really popular. We are working to push the envelope here. We are doing our part. This is your thing and this is your moment. Get onboard. We do run into special challenges. As far as the American Revolution is concerned. The big thing is going to be sources. Going back to the fact that you have this chaotic. Your bias and your certainties. After the fact that we do not have a hello guys. Is a fabulous guy. Great book. Wonderful person of all the folks that started. Sure we have a couple documents from washington. That is a very small snippet as far as what all these different forks happen. What they experience. That is going to be a root problem. Also going to have some work around a lot of mythology. Think about it . Valley forge. Wrapping their feet up. I am not making it up. Nonetheless you have this whole kind of already. Patriots. Good guys. Not so much. These guys did some atrocities on both sides. You get to the war in the south, it gets really messy and ugly. On both sides. You have to remember i do not hate on George Washington. He did make some mistakes. Kind of a preview of things to come. We do need to watch out for that. It is like an east coast thing. We are in texas. You are probably thinking alamo. This is the guys on the east coast. They would love to take us out. Not happening. There is that. Remember this. Is very different in 1775. Battles are small. There is also the difficulties and challenges that are very different than what you may be used to. There is that. This is just history in general. Before you move forward. Lets set up our two sides. We are going there. Was taught to the british first. Yes i am intensely doing that. What are some advantages they have . They have an established office record. They are actually pretty good. These guys know what theyre doing. Is guys that have been doing it for 30 or 40 years on many different continents. This is not the first rodeo. They have the experience. They can change things up. They like to think these guys came in their blind. They do not know what they were doing. That is not the case. These guys are good. We need to realize that. 270 warships. How many do the americans have . Thank you friends. This is one of the reasons we will not engage. We know we cannot win there. It is also hugely important for transport. They can get supplies. They can get all sorts of things in different places. This is definitely something. There is no way we can catch up to. Anything else . The offensive in this way. Nevertheless, they have them on their side. What else . There was more training. Lots of training. It goes back to your office record. Going along with that. 55,000 soldiers strong. Again, they are doing it what they do. One of the gate doors great things shows you just how diverse this force is. The british army. The well oiled machine. That is not necessarily the case. They are doing their duty and whatnot. They have their issues. They have the reasons why we are doing this. They are getting uppity as far as being englishmen. Nevertheless, theyre doing very good and have lots of training. They were ready to deploy. The go along with their training. We are starting on every possible for him. We have no government. We have 13 random colonies. Is a mess. Nevertheless, they are ready to go. They have been doing this for hundreds of years. They had been deployed to before. They are welltrained. Their excellent at what they do. Going back. We have about 55,000. Who else is fighting in this summer . We are glad to have about 30,000 . Before we go, where is this coming from . There is some house panels. They have that in the back room. These are mercenaries. They are guns for hire. This is classic european tactics. To go ahead and hire these guys. Maybe look bad on the colonial side of things. This is the way they operate. Not all of these folks are going to be deployed in the colonies at the same place at the same time. They have that in the background. They also have the population to draw from. 9 million people. You have a lot of folks. About 2 1 4 those are eligible for service. They have people they can replace. The colonies have about 2 million folks in all of the colony. They have the numbers to go along with us tonight. What is to have . Uniforms are gone. Artillery. It is just a new war in place. They have done this before. Going along with that, they have a well practiced system. Shirt. Supply will be a bit of a challenge for them. Something you need to remember. There is a big ocean in the way. Is there able to use canada. Yes there able to use their weapon. Nevertheless, it is a long way back to england for workers. Think back before general gage. Waiting to find out what happened . You have to wait for that. We have seen this several times. Theyre going to have to pull back. We need to make sure they have an exit strategy. One of the things we are not thinking about. We also need to remember. They have a government. And economy. Both of which they can support a longtime military operation. Again, what are the economies have . A bunch of assemblies. They just brought all of the governor. The declaration of independence. They do not remember reading about a government. A list of why he is the backup. Meanwhile, hundreds of years. They know what theyre doing. They are ready to go. Before they also render, there are some things working on our advantage as well. Like what . What do we have . You have to know your terrain. Said this over and over. Never go to war without a good man. These guys know what theyre doing. They have been here before. Rocks and creeks and trees. Indian passed. Theyre not so sure about that. We have that. Going along with that, lots of territory. We are on defense. Washington has an army in the field, the United States exist. If you look at that map, theres a lot of places you can hide or go to. You look at the way in and lost, you will not have a whole lot all. Nevertheless, he is still there. Drag out. Take as long as you can. Then, maybe they will eventually give up. It does not select he was honorable fancy way. It gets the job done. That is all that matters. We have more guys like price and principal. This is helping out because. Whatever you want to call it. Besides being a homefield advantage. It is your home. Is just family. It is why you came here. You are going to fight tooth and nail to defend that. Again, you get further into the cells. A lot of time they will both come down to. Which colors are burning corporal. That is your enemy is. It is going to get real personal integral partisan. By that point in time. Nevertheless that really motivates us. Sure they have the numbers. There is nothing at stake here. That is what it is that. This is home. That do not want to be a conquered people. Anything else . They are close enough. The lines are much shorter. You going to make sure you do not still for members. You have to work for. The making of money salicylates of the british. This is very patriotic. They have to make money as well. That is where they go at that. The communication lines were shorter. We just have to check with the congress. Instead of waiting months and years. That is the important part of that. Anything else . The prospect of foreign alliances. Anything particular we have to look for . They are the most commonly. Nevertheless, they are looking for revenge. They have had with the british. There is a chance we get back at them. Theyre the biggest baddest empire in the world. Nobody has. We can use that to our advantage. Believe me we need help. Anything else . A lot of areas with different the population. The civilians. Again, it goes back. This is home. Washington really does insist the men treat them well and roughly. That is part of that thing. With the british the kind of trip all over them and take advantage. The really should treat them with a bit more respect. The militia is really neat. Gives the americans that they actually have a lot of fighting experience. It also gives them the ability to quickly mobilize. They need to ship troops over. The militia instantaneously organize and they can just stay back in to the command. This goes to our tactics. One thing that was different for us. We are what you call guerrilla tactics. Or whatnot. It will eventually be an american way of war. We had behind rocks. Your local militia. That is there advantage. We talk a bit more in a moment. You have a source that you can call on. The british not so much. Again, these guys know their children. They know who their defenders are. They can get their supplies. It works to our advantage. The british have to destroy all of this to be able to win. Does the fact that we have less soldiers make it better for us . In regards to military leaders. The fact that we have fear of them. It does help as far as mobility is concerned. It is a mass casualty event in the. Our numbers are going to be small. A couple hundred thousand dollars in the field at one time. A bit of a mixed there. Anything else . It is not really a military advantage but it does help that we came in the wake of the enlightenment period. We have printed rights. We can see clearly there are being trampled on by britain. And gives us more patriotic pride going into the water. The goes back to our principles. Communication lines. We on the newspapers. We have the press. The press is hugely important. We will have patriot classes. We will pray on that right. We are filing for specific objectives. For economic opportunity. These guys not so much. This is a deployment for them. Now we have our two sides together. Yes we are doing this. We need to talk about the person who is going off to fight this war. Do that. We talk about our material. Theres 2 hugely important pieces to be able to make an army work. The land and you need less of it. We need to figure out how that weaponry works. Our arms. How to operate this machine. It also helps there is plenty projective. Will pass of interest back in case i miss him back there. Secondly, i would be did not provide coaches for the weapons. They grab one of these. Passed them around. Did not get ahead of me. My uniform today. This is the truth. Ordinary soldier. Because we create the army, it is a motley group. It is interface. Yellow is going to be officers and whatnot. One thing theyre going to need, your bucket. It is going to be our. This is a replica of the 1756 whitlock muscat. Is about 4. 5 feet long. Was about eight or 10 pounds. The standard issue. You will love this. It is in three parts. This metal mechanism right here. You stock which is they will impart right here. The barrel which is this long metal piece right here. Lock stock and barrel. The whole kit and caboodle. A long piece of metal. It is not. It means there was in here. Be put in there and it will give it a spin. With me and actually animate. That is not the point. What we are going to do is walk through to see how we operate this thing. What training is so important so we can all Work Together in conjunction. The first thing you need to do is to have caught your weapon. You cannot fire a weapon in this position. It is not possible. Them what youre going to do is to handle your conscience. The reach back over here. It is what all of you guys have. Your cartridge consists of three things. Black powder. A musket ball. A large red ball like so. Those are different sizes. It is solid lead. Most of the low temperatures. After you have had it cartridge, it is god trying the pan. You need to get some powder in here. You can dust the. To do that. Then youre going to pour some powder into the pan here. This is not real black powder. This is soldiers coffee. As much as you want to renovate, it is probably not good to do that. Next thing you need to do is to shut the pan. We are taken the still pan right here. What you need to do is charge your cartridge. You turn this around. You throw the ball in the powder. Down in the barrel. That is this metal piece right here. Ran your cartridge. Put it down here. Make sure you get it all the way down. Do not lose it. Do not leave it in there. Missing you do is turn it. Pulled all the way back. One in the general direction of the enemy. Then, fire. Why did i close my eyes . What is happening right in front of them is a explosion. What happens here, the flint hits the still frozen. The sparks then like the black powder which goes down the whole. The powder we put down in the barrel causes the explosion. Since our ball that direction. A good man on a good day to do this in 20 seconds. How long is 20 seconds . Lets see about that. Remember youre on the battlefield. A lot of things happening. People shooting at you. Cannons going off. People charging. Horses. All sorts of other things happen. 20 seconds. A good man and a good day. Four shots per minute. You cannot do math. There you go. 20 seconds is a longtime. That is why we counted out. If you do something wrong, somewhere along the way, it is not going to work. It is a very precise mechanism. Does it work in the rain . Yes. That is the point. If you have a rain shower then yes. The paper gets wet. You have to cover up the iraq. It is going to be a huge factor in this. What else . One of the good things about wearing a uniform like this is it gives you an idea of what youre working with. Not only going to all these different steps but are doing in these closed. There is a lot of steps involved. It is awkward. Heavier on one side. What else . If it gets messed up in any way your kind of screwed. Do not break this kind of thing. Remember what time period it is. 1875. This right here is a handcrafted work of art. Created by a gunsmith. Every piece of this. By hand. Each one is going to be individually different. If you know how this operates, if you break something, you lose a part, you cannot necessarily run to the nearest gunsmith. That is going to be a problem as well. Otherwise is just going to be a very heavy club. If you break something. Anything else . Is a very low likelihood of being able to hit at a greater distance. Three shots. Is a very inexact science. Another reason why the barrel is solon. You the range a longer barrel. The problem with that is the yard. How will you be able to hit something with us. Got the front steps. Look across and it is going to be about the boulder. That is a pleasure in me is going to be. Used two or three shots. Why you are advancing and you charge your bayonet. Remember the time period. This is very close,. That is the best you can do with this. Bouncing off the other end. Of hitting some other things over there. Youre going to have to replace us. Depending on how good your flank is. There are certain things that can happen. Anything else . Operator error. Again, it is very complicated. When you training. Do it again. Theres all these different steps that go along the way. This is a shorter version. The longer version the british using. It is actually here. It takes about 36 steps. A lot longer than 22nd. There is lots of things that can go wrong with this. How many years black powder for instance. It is going to, those problem. To be able to clear things out. To get the powder out of my pan. Anything else . Just the british . Pledge you mentioned that. The bayonet likes to go on the end. This is not a fights. The the reason why you close your eyes. Your point to get in the general direction. What we have is a socket. That is right here. What you do is you lock it in place. Once you events far enough, you will use this much like a lauren spear. You go for the squishy part. You want to thrust. You want to turn and pull back out again. It has this nifty little triangle to it. What youre doing is creating a puncture wound. Was of you know your first day, puncture wounds are very hard to close it. That is what youre going for these organs right here. It is not swordplay and all the stuff. Nevertheless, it is the other aspect of this. The use your lot to soften up the line before you charge with the bayonet. This is deafly a big piece of it. You can also shoot but it does throw off the balance. There is always a chance the ball could bounce off of it. Are the questions about our flintlock . How easy was it to actually do the bayonet point. Seems like it would be relatively easy. Or get out of the way. He has a member the chaos and confusion. That works to your advantage. Black powder is also very smoky. Drones and flags. That way you know the confusion and the chaos. They will work to your advantage or disadvantage. It is a good weapon. Other questions . That is no reason to maintain her. That is something you would all be required to have. How was the musket very to be melted down for statues and stuff. Youre using the same letter. We are not too concerned about it. That projectile. To be able to take them out. Nothing standardized. How much powder you put in your cartridge. What size your balls are. Just whatever you come up with. Do we have rifles . We do. Very few and far between. By 1778, o