America, 1700-1800?

[gamerdude873]

In which battles in particular did Americans go head-on with red-coats and win, before the south? Bunker/Breed's hill, is one that i know of (that ended in strategic defeat anyways), but i haven't heard of any others that involved the old-world style head first approach in which the americans won. Like I said (or implied anyways) and you too, the americans knew how to fight guerilla warfare quite well. I will admit, now that i have thought some, the colonists did have some experience in line fighting from the french and indian war/7 years war, but that was with the red coats on our side. I should be more lenient, though, considering the fact that no one at that point had really the ability to go fight red coats head to head and win. It must have shocked foreigners that people once seen as second class and disreputable fighters would even be able to hold out at all against the british army.

However, if you have read a decent history book about this period, you would see quickly how the Americans were the Dis-United states. For instance, The South viewed this war initially as a New England rebellion, and most southerners remained loyal. It was quite difficult to get the colonies to give Congress the means to fight a war during the course of the war, as Congress was little more than a body that recommended what needed to be done, at least until the Articles of Confederation were tossed (well after the end of the war). My point was, the US was not a truly well oiled and expansion oriented republic until Jefferson took over, at least. George and John Adams had their hands full setting precendents and making the new system run. Right there, the end of the 1700's are spent just getting america on its feet and stable. I wonder if this would even be worth playing, because after the revolutionary war, america spent a lot of its time with internal problems, which lasted until out side the 1800 time frame.