tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1964529812021795487..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Charles Lee and a “distemper’d brain”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-59400386569537960772017-09-23T08:18:12.987-05:002017-09-23T08:18:12.987-05:00Ah yes, I forgot about the gunpowder shortage.Ah yes, I forgot about the gunpowder shortage.Doug Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05651720537097952075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-20390799736377034832017-09-20T21:37:48.046-05:002017-09-20T21:37:48.046-05:00No, Lee meant men with spears. As this article by ...No, Lee meant men with spears. As <a href="https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/09/bows-and-arrows-pikes-and-spears/" rel="nofollow">this article</a> by Hugh Harrington documents, Lee, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington were all talking up spears, pikes, and even bows and arrows in the first year of the war. <br /><br />While a musket with a bayonet offered double the ways to kill than a spear, it didn’t have that advantage if you had no gunpowder. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-6041849051982873452017-09-20T15:25:17.959-05:002017-09-20T15:25:17.959-05:00By "spearmen", did he mean troops that r...By "spearmen", did he mean troops that relied primarily on the bayonet? That would actually make a certain sense, colonials would have benefited from close order bayonet training.<br /><br /><br />Doug Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05651720537097952075noreply@blogger.com