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[Dall_Piobaire]

I dunno, I think I would look to our own Cajunscot for that!

They start off by saying hay foot straw foot was civil war, or at least that was the title, But I am realatively sure that came from Von Steuben's frustration with the state of the standing army, and it's inability to march or drill properly.

I kinda got a chuckle about civilians not wanting to like the the govt, don't know about that I am certainly no authority though!

Great find on the article.

[Bigkahuna]

I dunno, I think I would look to our own Cajunscot for that!

They start off by saying hay foot straw foot was civil war, or at least that was the title, But I am realatively sure that came from Von Steuben's frustration with the state of the standing army, and it's inability to march or drill properly.

I kinda got a chuckle about civilians not wanting to like the the govt, don't know about that I am certainly no authority though!

Great find on the article.

I thought it humorous that Von Steuben had to get an American officer to swear at the new recruits for him,as he was drilling them.

[Dall_Piobaire]

You know, it is amusing, can you imagine the sight!

At the same time you know, can you imagine what it must have been like. They, for the most part, volunteered to stay, farmers, shop keepers, etc. I think most know that the musket, as a firearm, was secondary to the bayonet, and the British army was the best in the world with the bayonet. I have read accunts of the blood running out of the touchholes of the muskets, the hand to hand being so intense. Then, if you did get hit with one of those balls, not pretty at all.

I get a kick out of the movies that show the exploding cannon balls, but what is even more "amusing" if you can call it that, is that they would retrieve the ball and fire em back!

To stand shoulder to shoulder, rank upon rank, while an overwhelming force, a superior force comes at you with bayonets fixed, knowing that they are waiting to gut you like a fish. My great, great ....grandfather was in it, the whole time, he survived it, obviously, but I can't imagine it.

Sorry, off topic, just felt like rambling