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Originally Posted by Furious Mental

Well the primary evidence is:
- Regulations in Jacobite armies making clear that the obligations of leaders to maintain armies primarily meant supplying them with flintlocks;
- British records of arms seized or amnestied following Jacobite defeats; and
- Tallies of weapons recovered from dead Jacobites on the field of Culloden itself; 750 dead Jacobites were individually counted, and only 200 broad swords.

This generally accords with the fact that every victory delivered increased quantities of British weaponry, and of course thousands of guns were delivered to from France and Spain (whose advisers were certainly not teaching the recipients of those guns how to fight with broad swords).

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Interesting numbers. Do you have any sources I could look up?

"When the battalions are arranged into a formation deeper than they are wide (which is what happens when you stack them), it's a column. When they are arranged side by side so that they are wider than they are deep, it's a line. Moreover, I am speaking exactly of that technical meaning you keep referring to."

Well you are conflating putting companies or battalions behind each other with making the formation deeper than it is wide. It may in fact end up deeper than it is wide. But it will not necessarily be so.

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The only figures I have seen posted in this thread is from a list of patients in a hospital. "

Napoleon's surgeon Charrey inspected hospitals. He also inspected the battlefields themselves, so there you go.

"I can only conclude you're trying to argue that there shouldn't be any bayonet charges in the game at all, which would be a gross travesty of historical accuracy."

Why would you conclude that? I said bayonet fights were uncommon. I didn't say anything about charges.