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Researched by Cody A.
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Introduction
The American Revolution was one of the most famous wars that America has been involved in. It was the war that declared our independence from the British. The war with the fighting lasted about eight years. The conflicts between the Americans and the British lasted about twenty years. The fighting began in the year 1775. The first battles were the ones at Lexington and Concord, and we won that battle. The second battle was that same year, the battle at Bunker Hill, which was actually fought on Breed’s Hill. The British won that battle. The following year, the Declaration of Independence was adopted on the Fourth of July in 1776. That day is now called Independence Day.
Weapons
Some of the weapons that they used were muskets, which are a type of
a gun, Flintlock guns, and Bayonets. Bayonets are knife-like weapons that
you put on a wooden rod or on the end of muskets. Some people that
had these weapons used them like spears. You could also use these weapons
like knives.
Transportation
One of the things that troubled soldiers was transportation. Colonels
and Commanders would usually ride on horses and Privates would walk, unless
there were wagons that would carry wounded soldiers or soldiers for a surprise
attack. That was about all of the transportation that they had in those
days.
Strategies
Some of the strategies were surprise attacks and having the shorter people in front of the taller ones while in a battle. There were lots of other strategies like ambushes and attacking people while they are asleep. Sometimes, people would hide behind trees and things so that the enemy wouldn’t see them when they were about to attack.
Tools
Some of the tools that were the most important were Hatchets that were used to cut down trees for firewood, knives for cutting your food up or for fighting the enemy, and some sort of gun and bullets for fighting the enemy.
History
On August 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode 18 miles from Boston to Lexington. He was warning everybody he saw who was an American that the British were coming. If he wouldn’t have done that, we might have lost the war.
In the American Revolution, about 4,550 Americans died, and about
6,938 British died. That is a difference of 2,388 people! We had about
2/3 as many Americans dead as the British.
Parts of the war:
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was one of the major events in the history of the American Revolution. That "tea party" happened because the British put taxes on tea. People dressed up as Native Americans and threw more than 300 chests of tea overboard from a British ship in the Boston Harbor.
Battles
In battles, everybody walked in straight lines. If someone got shot, the person standing next to him would act like nothing happened. There were different groups of people stationed in different parts of the eastern states. The people that were stationed would fight in and around the places where they were stationed.
The Declaration of Independence
Many people signed the Declaration of independence. About 56,
actually. The Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1775, and
it was signed in 1783.
Here is a list of
the people who signed the Declaration of Independence:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott,
Ceasar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Button Gurnett, Lymon Hall,
George Walton, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll,
John Handcock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin,
Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Josiah Barnett, William Whipple, Matthew
Thornton, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart,
Abraham Clarck, Willilam Floyd, Phillip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis
Morris, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Benjamin Rush, John Norton,
George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Stephen
Hopkins, William Ellery, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch,
Jr., Arthur Middleton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Carter
Braxton.
Interesting Fact
Our second president, John Adams, graduated from Harvard, while our
first president, George Washington, only attended a few years of elementary
school.
Major events
Some of the major battles that occurred during the American Revolution
are the Battle at Bunker Hill, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the
Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Stamp Act.
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