During the Napoleonic wars and the American Civil War, even prior during the French and Indian War (7 Years War) or the American Revolution, very little fighting was done purely in the open with the defenders not hiding behind some sort of fortification or the attackers trying to attack in secret.
With Montreal, British forces scaled a difficult to scale side of a mountain? to counter the French forces. In the U.S. Revolution, British forces raised siege equipment (cannons) atop a hill higher than a U.S. fort forcing the U.S. forces to flee. In the Battle of Bunker Hill?, U.S. forces were behind dug holes in the ground able to open fire on British forces in Boston and were able to repel the British twice before being forced to flee due to a lack of ammunition. In the U.S. Civil War, Fort Sumter was taken by siege equipment (cannons) alone. In the Napoleonic Wars, France left hundreds of cannons behind on their poor retreat from Russia's greatest generals of all time (General Winter and General Size).
Vary rare would be the occasion where both sides of the war would meet upon a flat field with no defense. Prior to firearms becoming common, the English built a catapult to take down a Scottish castle. The Scottish army surrendered to the English with nary an arrow, sword, or attack order issued due to the siege equipment being built (the English army destroyed the castle just to show they could with the catapult).
Please, find a record of two armies meeting on a flat field with neither side having a tactical advantage aside from how strong the archer were, the design of the sword and armor, or having troops hidden in reserve.





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