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Swift envelopmen­t

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The Native American fighters use their frontier tactics to great advantage, slipping around the flanks of the British advance formation and executing a double envelopmen­t. Facing the enemy on three sides, the British soldiers sometimes mistakenly fire on their own troops. Each soldier may have been supplied with 24 musket rounds and ammunition begins to run low. Some soldiers discard their weapons and run.

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