Raellus, I very much see the parallels you've drawn. I've seen many similar parallels in the way that British and New Zealand irregular units fought during the Anglo-Māori Wars in New Zealand from the 1840s to the 1870s. In particular, in the methods of the Forest Ranger Companies which were formed to use non-standard tactics and take the fight to the Māori in the bush, quite unlike the methods of the regular British Redcoats.
I'm no expert in the New Zealand Wars but I know a little bit about one colourful character, Major
Gustavus von Tempsky. As a matter of fact, my most prized possession is a framed, limited edition print of a watercolour painting by von Tempsky of one of his unit's own military encampments in Taranaki in 1866. Von Tempsky was a Royal Prussian Army officer, adventurer, prospector and artist who had commanded a force of Mosquito Indians in Central America on behalf of the British before joining the Forest Rangers.
The Forest Rangers were renowned for wearing very different uniforms to the British Army of the time (dark browns, greens and blues instead of bright red), hard, practical wear for long periods in the forests of New Zealand. They were very proficient in ambush tactics and raiding and had much greater mobility than the Redcoats. And they were used to operating a long way from friendly forces and with minimal logistical support.
The Forest Rangers were disbanded 6 months after the scene in my print and von Tempsy joined the Armed Constabulary instead. He died in battle trying to save a wounded constable during an assault on a Māori gunfighter Pā (a Pā is basically a kind of rapidly constructed log palisade fort which was extreme effective and had some surprisingly modern features for the time), caught a bullet right in the middle of his forehead. This was during a less than successful campaign against the forces of the infamous Māori warchief and prophet Titokowaru whose forces, though outnumbered 12 to 1 by the British, never lost a battle during the Taranaki War. The gunfighter
Pā (Māori) is similar in size and layout to what I think many forward operating bases and outlying cantonment forts would look like late in the Twilight War.
The Māori had great respect for von Tempsky's abilities as a warrior so (according to some sources) they did him the ultimate honour of eating bits of him.