Sergent v. McKinstry ex rel. BD Unsecured Creditors Trust

MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

AMUL R. THAPAR, District Judge.

Location matters. When King Leonidas and the Greeks chose to make their stand at Thermopylae, the narrow mountain pass “largely neutralize^]” the Persians’ strong cavalry and enabled the Greek force to inflict massive casualties on a Persian army more than twenty times its size. See Ben Dupré, Where History Was Made: Landmarks of World History from Thermopylae to Ground Zero 11-12 (2009). During the American Revolutionary War, the militia fought from behind hills and trees rather than in the open field, employing guerilla tactics to…