dear Sir, i know that iv asked aboput this before, and i apreaseat your answer (why the French collumn couldnt break the British line but the Jakobites could) but im not a partuiculaly fit bloke, but i can run 100 yrds on a matter of seconds. A British volly fired at 75 yards, then the second at 50, a charge would have been able to reach their enimy easlily before a third volly. platoon fire couldnt have realy worked as on paper a platoon was 50 men, giving a 25-man front. a collumn had a front of about 100 men. I don’t get how they could not reach the British lines, even if they had supporting battalions. thankyou for taking the time for this rather long winded question (sorry) Chris G