Nope, not guerilla. Guerilla fighting is about avoiding pitched battles in favour of harassment, and Bunker Hill was pretty pitched.
Oh, and battles *do* decide wars. WW II would've turned out a lot different if the Battle of Britain or Battle of Stalingrad were won by the Germans.
As was pointed out, it also was not the only battle, and certainly not the decisive one.
Battle of Stalingrad? Thanks for proving my point.
Battle of Britain? That was all about setting up for an invasion, which required air superiority
to protect the supply line...
I say again, battles provide the killing blow. This means they appear to decide the war. But a cold, tired, hungry soldier is not as effective as a warm, well-fed and rested one. Supply lines are key. To put it in a DF frame of reference, When you hack the head off of a foe who has "given in to the pain", did you win by decapitating him, or by hacking his foot off and causing him to pass out?
Seriously, what's with the contempt for the French? In the thread about parkour, no less.
My apologies to any Frenchmen/women in the audience. The French Military was surprised, and had erected a shell defense. The resistance did what they could with what little they had available to them. The Allies had an enormous army, backed by a
supply chain that only America could provide at the time. The Germans were simply out-produced. Those two factors combine to make it seem as though the French did nothing. In fact, I doubt the Allies could have won without them.
As to my capitalization... It's a bad habit. If it doesn't get highlighted, I don't fix it. sometimes, I ignore it anyway.