Saturday, February 18, 2012

What strategy did the American military adopt from the French and Indian War?

The French and Indian War, a worl war that was fought primarily ont he soil of American colonies, broght about the development of American military strategy known as WHAT? This would be later utilized int eh American Revolutionary War.What strategy did the American military adopt from the French and Indian War?Hit and run. Later, this would be called 'guerrilla' (little war) tactics. Sun Tzu wrote about it loooong before Indians and Americans used it!What strategy did the American military adopt from the French and Indian War?Well technically, the French and Indian War was part of the larger-scale Seven Years War between Britain and France and involving their colonies in North American as well as a number of Native American tribes. So it was not an ‘American’ war per se. That being said, I think the defining tactic that the American colonists introduced was the use of militia as a major component of their fighting force. Colonists living on the frontier fought alongside regular British Army units against the French. George Washington was an American Colonial commissioned in the British Army during this war. The use of irregular tactics was not unique, but the use of a “citizen army” of part-time volunteers, which would later enter American historical lore as “Minutemen” during the Revolution was.

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