The Revolutionary war

This war started when the Colonists refused to pay certain taxes. Angry about this the king of Britain sent armies to attack the colonists. A british spy reported that in the city of Concord there was gunpowder. The king sent 300 soldiers to get the gunpowder. But to get to concord they had to pass Lexington. So they went there at night to get away unnoticed. The minute men, people of the city militia, attacked the british. Still the minute mens numbers were to small. Like that the war began.

The main weapon used in this war is the Smoothbore musket. It is 3 feet 8 inches long and fired a one-ounce ball. It was quite hard to reload a musket though. First you have to cock the flintlock. The next step is to take some gunpowder and put in a small opening in the musket barrel. Then, you took an iron stick and shoved it into the barrel.

When the British were going back, many militia went in small groups to attack. The farmers didn't. Know that they had so much people so they stayed back. They kept on chasing until they trapped the British in Boston. Overnight the militia made a giant fort on Breeds hill. In the morning, all the british sent a charge to attack the fort. The first charge failed and many british people died. Almost no colonists died. The British had to do three complete charges to finally capture the fort. The British had 1154 out of 2200 soldiers dead. The militia only had 411 killed out of 1500 soldiers.

There was many more battles, but I wanted to tell you this one because it was my favorite.