Did the colonial rebels invent insurgent war?

Question

or had there been someone before them?

Answer 1

No, the colonials invented MODERN warfare (rapid manuever, de-centralized command and control, use of cover for advance, withdrawal and ambush).

Colonial leaders like Anthony Wayne, Benedict Arnold (he was an American hero before he became a traitor to the revolt) and George Washington learned how to fight like that during the French and Indian Wars (1757). They then used the Indian's tactics in their actions against the British army.

Answer 2

First of all, the colonial rebels were not engaged in insurgent war. Insurgents are people who enter into a conflict after it's already been started so as to maximize instability. We were here first, before the British came to fight. So there was nothing to 'insurge'. What we engaged in was 'guerilla warfare', and we learned it from the indians.

When you are talking about insurgents, you are describing people who have snuck into a country to cause problems. Our rebels were already here. If anyone could be considered insurgents, it was the British, because our rebels had already contracted to come here fair and square.

Answer 3

There have been insurgent wars since we first started recording wars..... "El Cid' fought an insurgency against the Moors in Spain...... Spartacus was an insurgency....... there were several insurgencies in English history prior to the colonial rebellion.....including the Pic's against the Romans......The Bible records several insurgencies.....

No......colonial rebels did not "invent" the insurgent war.....they may have improved it with lessons they learned from fighting ther Indians

Answer 4

They didn't so much invent it, as that type of warfare has been around in some form or another since the beginning of human civilization, but they certainly used it to their utmost edvantage.
Recognizing that they had no chance of defeating the better trained, better equiped, and outnumbered forces of the English and Hessians using traditional European military tactics (skirmish lines, etc) they resorted to guerilla warfare very effectively.

Answer 5

No the pre-occupational Colonial Red Indians did :-P

Answer 6

You mean us? I do believe we did pioneer insurgent warfare in the Revolutionary War, or at least in more modern times we went against the grain of having large standing armies in some type of column formation. Instead we hid in the shadows, and basically did whatever was possible to cause terror and create victory.

Answer 7

i believe it happened in the old testement of the bible. i will have to do some more research. sorry.