You know, it is amusing, can you imagine the sight!

At the same time you know, can you imagine what it must have been like. They, for the most part, volunteered to stay, farmers, shop keepers, etc. I think most know that the musket, as a firearm, was secondary to the bayonet, and the British army was the best in the world with the bayonet. I have read accunts of the blood running out of the touchholes of the muskets, the hand to hand being so intense. Then, if you did get hit with one of those balls, not pretty at all.

I get a kick out of the movies that show the exploding cannon balls, but what is even more "amusing" if you can call it that, is that they would retrieve the ball and fire em back!

To stand shoulder to shoulder, rank upon rank, while an overwhelming force, a superior force comes at you with bayonets fixed, knowing that they are waiting to gut you like a fish. My great, great ....grandfather was in it, the whole time, he survived it, obviously, but I can't imagine it.

Sorry, off topic, just felt like rambling