COL (R) Bill Gray wrote on 2/18/04 12:17 PM ... I'm a bit late in commenting on this. But I'll do so any way. ;-) There is of course a second way of...
Except you define a "casualty" as one with a wound, while Bil defines it as someone who for some reason (wounded/dead, helping a wounded buddy, running away,...
Lord, I wish you guys wouldn't confuse me with the facts :). However, this one is a lick on me. "Hits" was a bad word to use. Hughes' calculations were...
COL (R) Bill Gray wrote on 3/02/04 10:21 AM ... Nope! ;-) Interesting article, which seems to me to support lower effectiveness at AoE fire ranges and higher...
Hi Bill Here are some more facts to confuse you with I would wish to take issue with the Larry Iron's Article, in particular the
citation of Blenheim and would...
Well, just so my part of the argument is clear, Jim O'Neil, if infantry fire is as ineffective as I argue, and as some others seem to agree [in general terms,...
In the past I was found a few references to double loading of muskets from difference sources. If this was the norm and most muskets were double loaded for the...
While we may agree to disagree on an average %, I do agree that Fontenoy is way out on the fringes. I assume the author included to make a point as to how...
Well Michael, In that case most troops wouldn't have wanted to seek cover, Generals would have taken positions in defilade or laid the troops down. There would...
... were to get hit, though I suppose if your buddy next to you is one of the 4% to get his face blown off it might not matter. Then again, 4 % casualties per...
Hughes' calculations in one instance, for example, looked at rounds expended against reported enemy casualties over a 20 minute period. So the 4% is most...
I don't have my library to check, but I think that the Army of the Potomac recovered about 10,000 rifle-muskets from the battlefield that were not in firing...
I am not going to get into the very knowledgeable descussion going on, but this is how I see this point. The 4% hit rate on an advancing column would only be...
Hi: Just finished reading Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Christmas. Although it is only fiction, he very neatly describes what happens to the head of a French ...
Actually, that is a very interesting point. Thank you. Regards, Bill Gray ... on, but ... column would ... local hit ... away. ... again, ... volleys...
And yet another very interesting point. Thank you as well. Regards, Bill Gray ... Although it is ... a French ... British infantry. ... 400 or so men ... about...
You miss the point I think, Jim. I suggest that people/soldiers are much more driven by example and comradeship than, necessarily, being simply risk-averse. ...
... But doesn't it all come back to Bill's figure being a *low* ball revision of a number based on historical evidence? (Hughes's figures of 3-5%) As I...
Jan I agree with you here, certainly if Hughes is to be challenged - serious
Period Documentary Proof should be produced to back up the argument. I have in my...
Good Day Jerry, Quick question; how could a battalion in line have converging fire? It can't, since a battalion can only do fire by; oblique left, oblique...
Art: Perhaps I used imprecise period language. What I meant to say is that rather than shooting straight ahead, the aimed fire of the exterior of the British ...
Mike, obviously we see from different views... comments below. Jim O'Neil ... Or well delivered volley ! as i think others have asserted quite well. And note...
Art: I skipped over your second question. The indication in the story was that the French commander knew that he had conscripts with which to work. He hoped, I...
... Because that's the mythical interaction of French and British infantry in popular history, and that's about the limit of Mr Cornwell's historical...
Bonjour Jerry, There are some brilliant memoires out there in English. Even some that are translated into english as well. But to be quite honest, I've never...
Having that kind of modifier for close combat could be done, of course, as my impression is that when you got to 30 yards or less things got real ugly. ...
Jan Spoor wrote on 3/04/04 5:56 PM ... Hughes set an upper bound on musketry casualties with his calculations. ;-) Hughes, Firepower, p165: "When considering...
Yep but you will still only kill between 1 to 3 Stands depending on Die Roll
- and it will sort the men from the boys in very short order Your Example - Brits...
