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Events (Important events of Revolutionary War)1775: Paul Revere Warns: “The British
are Coming” Resources (Heading 3)America At War is a book about the Revolutionary War informing the reader of different events that went on during the war. It tells about events such as how the war started all the way up to the Treaty of Paris. This is a secondary source that is credible due to the fact that the author has a bibliography in the back of the book. The War for Independence is also a detailed book that has relevant events referring to the Revolutionary War. It goes in detail about events such as the Battle of Bunker Hill, about the “shot heard round the world”, and other important events and people in the war. This is a secondary source that is credible due to the fact that the author has a bibliography in the back of the book.
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The Revolutionary War in Colonial AmericaBy Richard
Dunn The Revolutionary War was a war of rebellious efforts by the colonist that were ruled by the British. The British made the colonist pay taxes on items without giving them representation in parliament. The colonist objected to this, so they decided that a change needed to be made so they rebelled to form there on government. This led to the Revolutionary War, which eventually led to the colonies separating from British and governing their own land. On March 5, 1770 a British soldier stood lone in front of the State House and began to get tormented by the local Bostonians. Captain Thomas Preston came to the soldiers aid and calling in back up and when the other soldiers arrived a shot was fired in the middle of all the rioting, this resulted in the death of five people and the wounding of a few others which was known as the Boston Massacre. Many carried on the tragedy of the Boston Massacre, and this helped in starting the Revolutionary War. According to the book The War for Independence written by Albert Marrin, one evening after three vessels anchored at the Boston Harbor, about 200 men dressed as Indians boarded the vessels and dumped all of the tea over bored into the water and called it “saltwater tea”(36). They did this in the rebellious act of refusing to pay taxes on the tea. “Men in all the colonies began to sing the latest song “Rally Mohawks! Bring out your axes. Let’s tell King George we’ll pay no taxes On his foreign tea.”(36). This event known as the Boston Tea Party led to the British closing the Boston Harbor which disable the Bostonians from going out to fish and also from importing food. The people of Boston began to starve and in respect for their acts, the other colonies began to send cattle, crops, and other means of support to them. According to the book The Revolutionary War by John Bowman, then tension between the feuding forces became strong and “A warning came directly from the mouth of Patrick Henry as he said, “Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!… The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!…Why stand we here idle?… I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!(28). This eventually led to the start of the war in which another rebellious act took place. According to a web page by the name of History Central on the night of April 18, 1775 Paul Revere road out to warn the colonist that the British were coming. According to another web page called The History Place “At dawn on April 19 about 70 armed Massachusetts militiamen stand face to face on Lexington Green with the British advance guard. An unordered 'shot heard around the world' begins the American Revolution. A volley of British rifle fire followed by a charge with bayonets leaves eight Americans dead and ten wounded. The British regroup and head for the depot in Concord, destroying the colonists' weapons and supplies. At the North Bridge in Concord, a British platoon is attacked by militiamen, with 14 casualties”. This eventually led up to the Battle of Bunker Hill. On June 17, 1775 consisting of three Attacks by the British on the American soldiers, the first two attacks ended in the same results with the Americans causing the Britain soldiers to back off because the American soldiers were ordered to hold fire until they could see the white in the eyes of the British soldiers. However, on the third attack the Britain’s obtained control of Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill because the Americans ran out of ammo and had nothing to fight with but sticks and stones. According to a web page developed by Tom Chirgwin the British lost over a thousand soldiers while the Americans only lost approximately 120 soldiers while about 300 were wounded and thirty captured. On October 7, 1777 the first major American Victory came about at The Battle of Saratoga. General Benedict Arnold and General Horatio Gates defeated British General Burgoyne, killing about 600 British soldiers where only 150 American soldiers died. After years of fighting, the rebellious acts of the colonist concluded on September 3, 1783 when the two sides signed the Treaty of Paris, which allowed the Americans to keep control of their land, and the British did not obtain any land as a result of the war. Works Cited (Heading 3)
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/bunker.html · The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-75.html · Martin, Albert. The War for Independence. 1988. Macmillan Publishing Company. New York, New York. P.36 · The Multimedia History Company. History Central http://www.multied.com/revolt/battles.html |