In June, at the Battle of Belleau Wood, the trench shotgun allowed American soldiers to literally mow down the advancing enemy troops. “That shotgun volley was new to them,” J. H. Hoskins, a captain in an American engineering company, told the Nashville Banner, his hometown newspaper. “Every time a gun fired three or four Germans would go down. The more the surprise gripped them, the closer they would huddle and the deadlier was the fire.”
See it’s a thought process like this that terminates in you standing around like a fool in 1 billion BCE, trying to quash all those pesky proto-gametes.
If protestors regularly used military formations police would have a much harder time breaking them up. Historical battles were fought over days if not weeks because the formations on both sides were so difficult to break through.
Mm, to my knowledge this isn't true. It's the other way around - historical battles were typically fought over the course of only a few hours after the clash began, because combat is physically and mentally taxing.
If you're referencing the 'hours, days, or even weeks' comment at the start, that's in reference to troops forming up in opposition to each other. Essentially, both sides would form up for battle but not actually fight, looking for the right time or right place to offer an attack, or trying to goad the enemy into making an unwise attack. This could repeat for days or, as the video says, weeks, before one side or the other actually decided it was worth the risk to clash and start the battle proper.
Saltier than Carthage (if it had been salted)
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