For a look at American tactics in the first battle do a search for Hezekiah Wyman.
He had a rifle and knew how to use it.
Also search the phrase, "circle of fire." On the way back from Concord and Lexington the Regulars ran into that tactic.
Later in the war there was more reliance on typical European tactics.
"Mad Anthony" Wayne wrote a letter to his superior, possibly Gen. Washington asking that rifles be withdrawn from members of his command in favor of muskets and bayonets.
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