Two huge standing armies fought it out as they did several times. The British, not exactly our friends after the war of 1812 were still the subject of a lot of ill feelings (how's that for understatement) from our revolution and our country was born during a distrust of standing armies filled with mercenaries and war in general. One reason, if you read the Federalist Papers and the debates, why there is no provision for a standing army in our constitution...we were to rely on state miltias and one reason is clearly that standing armies invite an English army fighting a French army on the battlefields of Spain....a true European tradition.
Anyway this is a curious little piece, just long enough to be split in half for YouTube purposes. When I think of the nut in Tucson, carrying a Glock 9mm, and juxtapose this look at history and the times it reflects, I have to think we have lost our minds and souls to the gun lobby.