The cause for all this protesting, we’ll call is for arguments sake, was because a life lost. Whether he was a suspect or a victim, he is now deceased. It’s hard to believe that the Revolutionary War began in a very similar way. The residents of the New World, America, were being taxed by Great Britain …show more content…
The same held true in 1770. Silversmith Paul Revere captured the Massacre on an engraving, showing the five colonists who lost their lives that day. This image, undenounced to the British, was spread to all 13 colonies and the Revolutionary fire was fueled. American’s were preparing for war by stashing smuggled firearms. The Continental Congress determined that a British attack on one colony meant an attack on the country a whole, and they were preparing to fight for what was rightfully theirs. We were united as one, the United States of America. By the Spring of 1775, a gunsmith named Isaac Davis had begun training our nation’s first militia, a citizen based militia, consisting of all volunteers who were local businessmen with no formal military …show more content…
One hut housed a dozen soldiers. They were provided very little and the term “roughing it” doesn’t begin to cover their living conditions. Many were without shoes, and clean water was a luxury. They had run out of meat and were surviving on flour cake, simply a mixture of the flour and water. Illness spread like wild fire and thousands were sick within weeks. The smallpox epidemic hit Valley Forge killing 1 in 4 of its victims. By the end of the winter in 1778 George Washington recruited Baron von Steuben, an ex-Prussian Army officer. Steuben regained discipline, order, and health back into the troubled army, and he introduces bayonet fighting. While Steuben led the troops, Washington focused on military intelligence through