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American Revolution thread:

The war head everything. Winter fighting. Guerrilla warfare. Big set piece battles. Sieges. Urban street fighting.

> April 1775, Massachusetts militia pwn British regulars in the first battles. Solid k/d ratio.

> May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys take Ft. Ticondaroga in upstate New York. Knox drags the artillery all the way to Boston and uses it to force the British to abandon the siege.

> November 1775, General Montgomery leads mostly New York men into Canada. Patriots take Montreal. The Siege of Quebec City falters in late December due to bad weather and Montgomery taking a bullet to the neck.

>Urban street fighting during the Battle of New York. The British shell Manhattan. Alexander Hamilton uses cannons stolen from the Battery to fire back. He goes from 100 men to 19 over the next months and mounts amazing rear guard actions halting advancing troops.

> Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776. Washington crosses the frozen Delaware and picks apart German mercenaries. Hamilton had been lying ill for days before this but got up to lead the artillery. Caught a whole bunch of Hessians running out into the street who surrendered en mass.

> 1777, September and October, battles in Saratoga. Brit cucks lose 440 to 90 killed and 6,500 men surrender.

>1778, John Paul Jones, who was bros with Ben Franklin, takes it to the British and raids shipping in the Irish Sea.

> 1781, greatest year of my life. Brits pwned at Yorktown. Lafayette and Hamilton lead the charge on the fortifications. Hamilton has the men unload their guns first to avoid giving away their attack. Americans bayonet Brits to decisive defeat.

Is this the best war ever? Has this much freedom ever been packed into a single war?