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Guns of the Grunts: 1763

by Chris Eger

With drone strikes and snipers taking out targets past a mile, it may be hard to imagine that 250-years ago a New World minded armed force protected a country in a very different place.

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Braddock’s Defeat, Brown Bess Rifles and the Tactics that Lost America

by Aaron Samsel

To the Imperialists in Britain, General Edward Braddock was considered seasoned, commanding, unyielding (read: old, arrogant, incompetent) but his calamitous expedition to take Fort Dusquesne from the French sealed his fate as an antiquated tactician and perhaps gave a young George Washington a glim

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