The Weapon That Won More Battles Than the Musket

In September 1777, a British general ordered his men to take the flints out of their muskets before attacking an American camp in the dark. Two years later, an American general gave the exact same order. The bayonet decided more battles in the American Revolution than the musket did — and regimental surgeons almost never recorded a bayonet wound. This is why. Paoli, Valley Forge, and Stony Point. Sources in the pinned comment. 00:00 The Order That Made No Sense 00:49 Why a Volley Decided Less Than You Think 04:32 The Weapon That Worked Before It Touched Anyone 06:54 No-Flint Grey and the Night at Paoli 09:39 The General Blamed for His Own Massacre 11:02 Why the Continental Army Had No Bayonets 13:40 Valley Forge and the Prussian Who Spoke No English 16:22 Little Gibraltar 18:54 What the British Commander Saw 20:47 Twenty Minutes 22:53 What It Changed #AmericanRevolution #RevolutionaryWar #MilitaryHistory #history