Why did they just march in a straight line towards enemy fire instead of charging?

Why did they just march in a straight line towards enemy fire instead of charging?

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then the line would break

i have the answer but i do not speak english properly

Because they mistakenly believed they were fighting men that had honor, not barbarians using savage methods.

The idea makes more sense when you realize there would be much more people involved and it would be more densely packed.

what's the point, the first guys get shot anyway

Those giant bayonets were big enough to serve as pikes so they can cluster up and discourage calvary charges.

Also makes it easier to maneuver your forces and give marching orders when everyone is in close packed groups.

Also makes attacking more difficult for infantry since your advancing under concentrated volley fire and into an eventual wall of bayonets.

I read it was because of how imprecise muskets were, they'd shoot in random directions so they needed to line men up closely and all fire at once to form a spray.

That’s just wrong. Muskets were at least precise enough to hunt small game like rabbits with. Marines in naval battles also didn’t just line up on the gangway and did just fine.
It’s much more about the same reasons soldiers with spears formed battle lines for hundreds of years and to keep solid lines of men between the enemy and your rear and artillery.
The idea that smoothbore muskets couldn’t hit anything even at close range is a myth and if nothing else is debunked by the fact that anyone bothered to use them in the first place.

why didn't they use even more giant bayonets and stab their opponent outside of musket range?

Well it's all relative. There's a reason you don't see battle lines past WWI. The (in)accuracy was balanced against the positive combat benefits of operating troops into organizable lines.

In that period longarms used for hunting were rifled, and so were significantly more accurate and far more effective at longer rangers than smooth-bore military muskets of the same period were. Rifled longarms didn't first start seeing widespread military use until the mid 19th century. Smooth-bore muskets were incredibly inaccurate, but it wasn't seen as a concern for a number of reasons. Mainly because after the first volley the battlefield was covered in smoke, so a unit armed with rifled guns wouldn't even have a range advantage anymore.

In the seven years war, the British typically liked to get up close to fire because it dealt more damage, and muskets weren’t too accurate, so the French would fire and then the English (who were famous for discipline) would march up in a two man line and fire. Worked so well at the Battle of Quebec that the battle lasted 15 minutes.

I know this is bait but I'm sick of this question.
>In an otherwise evenly matched melee the side that just sprinted 300 yards is going to lose.
>Some people run faster than others. Not everybody arrives at the enemy line at the same time. The people who charge fastest get bayoneted first, then the slow ones as they catch up. This is not an issue if everyone is going at a regulated speed.

Good question :)

Peasants will do as their lord says thats all they're good for damn dogs

practically speaking, you want to have as much energy as possible for the hand-to-hand fighting you'll meet on the other side. otherwise the side that ran the farthest is at a disadvantage. predicating your tactics on one wild charge is what lost gaul to the romans

Why didn't they just use jetpacks to vertically outflank them in the air

Can you idiots stop posting random scenes to obscure shit with a filename like "file"? You're as bad as teenage girls who vaguepost on Facebook.
If you want to talk about a movie then tell us what ducking movie you want to talk about.

>British and French
>ever thinking the other would act honorably

It's Barry Lyndon, but you know you can just reverse image search it right? It's not an obscure movie, it's one of the most well known period pieces of all time.

It was a different time.

why don't they all duck right when the other side fires