wrote in message And the weapons used came into
play. The troopers had single-shots and
sidearms, while the "Indians" had a fair number of repeating rifles, and
by happenstance, the "Indian" bows turned out to be at least as useful
as the guns (you can arch arrows into the enemy - rifles of any kind
don't make very good mortars).

Indian Joe asks ---saw arched arrows killing Scots in "braveheart" but
have never read of indian attack from behind a hill-- would enjoy knowing
where you read of this.Once at a pow-wow saw a drunk blind old squaw send
her arrow after the moon--but she missed