While there are instances of asymmetrical warfare (king's Mountain  
comes to mind) during the American Revolution, they contributed to  
victory but did not win the war. It was the pitched battles such as  
Bunker's Hill, Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, etc. that determined the  
final outcome. And it was not the militia, but the Continental Line  
that won those battles.

James Brothers, RPA
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On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:16, Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote:

> Paul has received some rather unfair criticism about his  
> understanding of the US military in US history.  Paul knows this  
> history in detail but let me "speak" for him for a minute.
>
> The US militia and "professional" military during the Revolution  
> was a rather thrown together force.  They prevailed, but for  
> reasons that seem almost miraculous.  It helped that Americans  
> often fought asymmetrically from Concord on out.  It also helped  
> that the field of battle was so large that the British military,  
> itself without a draft, didn't have enough troops to completely  
> occupy the 13 Colonies/united States.