Weapons of West Point -06- The Kentucky Rifle in the American Revolution
0A discussion and shooting demonstration with an exemplar Kentucky Rifle and comparing it to the flintlock smoothbore musket. This was brought into the context of Linear Warfare and used as an example of a leader organizing his mix of weapons to fit with organization and tactical doctrine. This procedure, used by BG Dan Morgan, produced victory at the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution. This example is very important for the viewer. It is actually quite similar to what Edward III did at the Battle of Crecy.
Though it is left to the professor actually teaching the students, this and the previous tape are used to emphasize the importance of Friedrich von Steuben for training, and the Prussian connection to Washington. Von Steuben helped get the Continental Army to the point where they could effectively use the flintlock smoothbore. George Washington used King Fredrick the Great’s strategy of exhaustion in the North in the
American Revolution. Victories in the South, like Cowpens, drove the British back to Yorktown. This allowed Washington, covered by the French Fleet, to switch over to the strategy of annihilation. He marched his army south and then defeated and captured a large portion of the British Army at Yorktown, thus winning the war. This is gunfight dynamics expertise on a grand scale.
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