Talk:Battle of Barren Hill

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[edit] Agreement

Trip, I'm willing to try and work out an agreement here. Anyway to try and clear things up, no I do not think Germantown was an American Victory, nor do I think it was decisive British. anyways, do you propose anything for this page? I don't see why it has to be all drawn out, imo I think it is much more simple, easier, and more clear to the average reader to just put an American Victory. (Red4tribe (talk) 18:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC))

Ok this is fine. (76.15.57.115 (talk) 22:51, 20 April 2008 (UTC))

I can't see that this can really be described as an American victory unless the American forces actually vanquished the British. As there seem to have few casualties on either side and this was just a skirmish, then something like "Successful American delaying action" would be more appropriate. If you look at the much more significant and bloodier Battle of Le Cateau the result is properly described as "Successful retreat by the Allies": to reduce that to "German victory" or "British victory" would just be plain wrong. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 15:26, 21 April 2008 (UTC)