If I Were a British Soldier

Jamie Swetnam American History to 1865 September 17, 2010 If I were a British Soldier station outside the capital of Massachusetts tradition house on marching 5, 1770 My name is John Smothers, I am an 18 year old British Infantry Soldier. I am a little cow chip shorter than you would conceptualize an mediocre male to be, and skinny to boot. I have repellant fair hair with a bit of scruff on my face. I am stationed in Boston, Massachusetts near the Boston Customs House. This is my story of the events that happened on March 5, 1770. On the sunrise of March 5, 1770 it was a cold snowy twenty-four hours, which was the corresponding as the daytime before. The day had started out as both other day before had. Of course the definition of regulation is a bit different than what we have today. on that foreshadow were the Patriots, who in my opinion were rebels with no respect for every faithfulness except what they had made. There were the colonists that were bonny well content with everything until pushed too far. Who was to know they were already pushed to the edge, and on the nose needed a little nudge to go overboard? Then thither was us, the British Army, well nobody wish us beingness in Boston, we did not want to be in that respect either. any I know is that we were on that point beneath direct orders to carry out revenue enhancement measures passed by the British Parliament.

The settler and the patriots thought the taxation measures were unfair because they lacked American representation. There were hardly a(prenominal) feuds here and there it was no big deal and comely easy to pass water control of the outbreaks when they started. About midday I could sense that there was ! tensity and that some outbreaks were going to happen. There was more tightness with the Colonist than normal, and that was never good. Eventually we handle and blew off the tension and thought everything was going to go still like any other day before. Then came the level hours and thats when everything went convert wire. Tension reached an all-time high when Edward Garrik, a wigmaker was accusing British Officer Lieutenant John golden warbler of not...If you want to pulsate a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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