Mel Gibson leads the American Revolution | The Patriot | CLIP 

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Dramatic and "Hoolywoodized" but pretty close to the truth. 10+

Why are you using past tense?

if you truly dont care. why comment?

Bro this guy is cool for loving this movie.

Hell yeah dude

Oh, it a good movie alright. But a terrible history lesson.

Yup, by that point, Lord Cornwallis knew the battle was lost.

Yeah, it literally took centuries for military tactics to catch up with firearms technology. Even during World War One, field commanders were still ordering infantry to walk across open fields against belt fed machine guns in fortified trenches; pure insanity.

@@CaneFu you’re right. I probably could’ve stretched my example into WW1 I just view that as more trench warfare than linear warfare. But to your point it’s essentially the same thing, only difference is one is immobile and the other is running.

@@jacoballen4189 Yeah, I have even read that some machine gunners, after mowing down hundreds of enemy soldiers, lost their heart to keep slaughtering so many and deserted their weapons.

Mhm

This was the most effective way to do it. Muskets were inaccurate and took a long time to reload. Standing together increases firepower and protects from cavalry.

That was how war was conducted back then. Crazy isn't it

Because firearms were not accurate and also had a very short range. Massing troops was the only way to make the firepower work. By the time of the American Civil War, technology had advanced to better accuracy and longer range, but tactics had not kept pace with the technology. Troops still went toe to toe, and with the advancement in firearm technology, the casualty rate shot to astronomical levels. I’m not really sure when Occidental militaries stopped the tactics of standing in line and trading volleys.

@@blockmasterscottsupposedly, Imperial Russia was still doing it as late as their war with Japan, despite having modern repeating smokeless powder rifles

You must be online expert :DDD .!.

You gotta be trolling, this movie was awesome

@@bleo8371 where do I claim to be an expert?

@@LovesandCuddles for you it might be, for me personally, it definitively was not. I saw it once, did not like it at all, never felt the need to see it again. I am not saying that it is objectively bad, but it was bad for me.

@@chstoney Oh wow, you might the very first person I've bumped into that didn't like The Patriot. What was it about the movie you didn't like?

Nope, Denzel Washington is acting as a retired gladiator turned arms dealer for the Roman empire. Hannibal Barca was not even alive during the period of Marcus Aurelius. He lived during the Roman republic era.

@@ramananrampragash6790 lol ok just look up “denzel Washington Hannibal barca” on google and see for yourself.