French Battle Tactic: Moving Walls to Protect the Front Line
Brad LiebThe French used a battle tactic of stuffed mattresses carried by slaves to protect the front line. The Chickasaws at first mistook these white bundles as possibly the ghosts of those they just killed, but soon discovered their own tactic to outsmart the French.
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