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The American Revolution | 7 | 18.42% | |
The sum of all American movies. | 30 | 78.95% | |
Pass. Next question. | 1 | 2.63% | |
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07-15-2021, 11:09 PM | #16 | |
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Where I think you may be off:
So I guess my thinking on your methodology would be… 265 battles x 1,000 soldier average x 10 shot average = 2.65 million rounds You called yours an upper end, so maybe this is the lower end giving us a range? Regardless, that’s still a lot of bullets! Last edited by Kellerfox; 07-15-2021 at 11:35 PM.. |
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07-15-2021, 11:32 PM | #17 |
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Going down the rabbit hole…
I’m seeing a couple websites citing David McCullough (arguably the foremost expert on American History alive today) saying that there were closer to 1,500 total engagements during the Revolutionary War. The ~250 number would be major battles, so these other 1,250 would be much smaller…. But as a whole they would still add up! Let’s say each had an average of 100 total combatants. Using our 10 shot average that would be another 1.25 million shots! |
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07-16-2021, 06:49 AM | #18 |
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Again, the question was more bullets, not gunshots. Since movies rarely use live ammo, it has to be the Revolution.
As described in my many times great grandfather's memoirs, a lot of the fighting in the south was quick ambushes by a few Americans, where they only fired 1 round at a column of Brits and then disappeared into the woods. The remaining Brits would fire everything they had at trees, birds, and other suspicious forrest creatures. After all the excitement, they'd gather up their dead and wounded, reload, and march on, only to fall prey to another rebel volley a few miles away. |
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