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Originally Posted by cdcox
As a ground truth, there were around 24,000 combat wounds on both sides during the American Revolution. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/a...evolution-faqs
Which equates to around one wound per 500 rounds fired.
In comparison in WWII it is estimated the 45,000 rounds were fired per kill. http://www.shootingrangeindustries.c...aining-helped/ So if anything, my estimate of 13M rounds fired during the American Revolution might be on the low side. Based on this, I feel better about going against the Chiefs Planet consensus (and my own intuition) and choosing more rounds fired in the American Revolution, compared to movies.
War consists primarily of scared soldiers firing blindly. |
For wars in the WW I time frame and earlier, war consisted mostly of soldiers dying of disease.