Charlie T. and Aidhan A.

Musketeer, Interpreter At James Fort Recreation. Interview. James Town: n.p., 
     2015. Print

For the English the main tactic that was used by the English was

called linear tactics, when performing these you are mainly trying to
intimidate the enemy and also distract them. By marching shoulder to
shoulder directly towards the enemy and on top of that shooting. When
the many two or three lines of soldiers reach where they are meant to
be, they organize themselves by height, the first row of soldiers
shoots and takes at least 15 seconds to reload, then after that the
line in the middle fires and it goes on to the last line, finally the
first line is ready to shoot and they do it all over again. After
shooting at the enemy the the army will ether charge or distract the,
so they dot see a small group coming around to them from the back. If
the strategy of shooting in formation works and the soldiers see that
the enemy is  week they would then start charging them but in a slow
and more lethal manner. After many years of fighting with the native
Americans and finally getting them out of the land that the English
were colonizing the English were able to pick up some tricks on the
way. Later the english and the French start to incorporate gorilla
tactics into there fighting, they are started to send in small groups
of soldiers in camouflage into the woods. Back on the note of warfare
on the battle field the English had a way of defending against there
own tactic of running at the enemy with something called the grape
shot. When using the grape shot you would stuff a cylinder shaped can
filled to the brim with musket balls, they would stuff the calendar in
a cannon and shoot hundreds of musket balls all over the enemy. The
big idea of linear tactics were to control the other side, if you can
do that you can pretty much win the war.