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His horse was named "Brown Beauty"

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Paul Revere was captured by redcoats, but he was let free.

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Ally - a partner or supporter
Colony- A land claimed and ruled by a country far away
Pamphlet - a short paper that often discusses current events or ideas

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The patriots were rebels that rebel.

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MUSKET - early form of rifle

MUSKETBALL - a type of bullet

REDCOAT - British soldier

GRENADIERS - special soldiers chosen for their height and strength

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Grenadiers - a soldier armed with grenade launchers or grenades

Continental Congress - a meeting of the colonists to. make laws and decisions

Barrack - a building that soldiers live in

Sentinel - a soldier who stands on watch

Impetuous - wanting to act quickly

Tranquil - quite and peaceful

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There were 2 people who sent the alarm

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It was 2:00 when he arrived at Lexington and about 2:30 when he arrived at the battle

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It took place on April 18, 1775

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He yelled "The Regulars are Coming". He didn't day the British are coming because all the colonists considered themselves British

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1 lantern = British go by land

2 lanterns = British cross the Charles River and then go by land

2 LANTERNS!

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Paul went through Medford

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Paul spread news to Philadelphia and New York

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Somerset was the boat the British came on and the boat Paul went by when he was crossing the river

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Paul Revere was one of the 3 men to spread the word that the British were coming to steal the weapons that the colonists were hiding.

Paul Revere was being chased by 2 British soldiers

Paul was threatened to be killed by the British but they took his horse instead

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700 British soldiers marched to Lexington.

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It took place at 5:00 am and there was 80 colonists but when the battle ended 8 colonists would die from their wounds in the battlefield.

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At 5 am about 700 British soldiers marched into Lexington with 3 officers leading them on horseback.

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Someone's name was Lieutenant Colonel Frances Smith. The battle of Lexington last 5 minutes.

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250 patriots marched into concord because they heard that the British had attacked Lexington and were moving on to concord. The towns people were demanded to tell were the weapons that the patriots were hiding but the people told the soldiers the wrong place because they were hid in a local farmers field.

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British soldiers retreated, and colonial minute men shot at the from the woods and behind fence’s.

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400 armed patriots were about to fight 700 British they were not scared they knew what they were facing they were out of the game they would not win but they still had faith

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ARTILLERY=cannons and other large guns used during battles

Desert= to leave military service without permission

Militia=an army of regular people

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Red Coats Burnt carriages that were meant to hold cannons which attracted Americans cause they thought the town was  on fire.

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For a few hours the two troops did not fight everyone was silent they were waiting for more members on both sides to join the only thing that you could hear was their Fifes, the British troops were scared of the patriots so the British ran away secretly trying to escape from the deadly shots.

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It took place on April 1775. There was about 400 militiamen at the battle and soon more would join in. The British fled but along the way the colonists fired down on them, it became a massacre and a twenty mile road that turned into a battlefield. On that day more than 300 British died and lees then 100 patriots died. The start of the battle took place at old north bridge. Know one knows who fired the first shot of the war, which is very weird. A colonial officer said don’t fire in till you see the whites of there eyes. Another officer yelled “fire, fellow soldiers, for gods sake fire!” And now it is a famous saying of the revolutionary war.

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The 250 soldiers were lead by Sargent John Buttrick.

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One man survived getting shot in the head and getting Pierced by a bayonet 13 TIMES!

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The British  red coats and colonial minutemen met at North Bridge.

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A British Brown Bess was the most common musket of the war. A Brown Bess was deadly at close range, and its size was around 1 meter/42 in., and 6.4 kilograms/14 pounds. It was a muzzle-loading gun meaning it was loaded from the end of the barrel from the muzzle, and the Brown Bess used gun powder.

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Weapons and gear from the revolutionary war 

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Weapons and gear from the revolutionary war 

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COLONISTS
The soldiers did
Not have fancy
Shoes so they
Used two rags
For there feet.
They also had tricorns
Like the British did.
In 1779 general
Washington made
Them ware blue
Wool coats with
Different facings
For different states
They came from.

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Red coats wore a hat, a shirt, a waistcoat, white breaches (short pants), gaiters (leggings between the knee and the shoe)       , and a red coat (that’s why they were called red coats), they were also armed with a Brown Bess musket.

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A bayonet could be attached to the end of a musket to use in hand to hand combat, it was also used in a charge on the enemy.

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Weapons and gear from the revolutionary war 

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Weapons and gear from the revolutionary war 

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British wore hats with bears skin and those hats were tall they also wore feathers hat's. They had hard helmets made out of hard leather or  brass. Some of those were covered with horse hair or  bear fur to fend of sord blows. The shoes were also made out of leather they called them shoes but they were really just two pieces of leather on there foot with a buckle to hold it together they also switched there shoes every day so they would were out.

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Muzzle-loading muskets were 4 feet, 8 to 12 pounds, and were loaded on the open end, the muzzle. Carbines were lighter than other rifles, shorter than other rifles, and was used most often by cavalry soldiers. The breech-loading rifles, unlike the muzzle-loading rifle, was loaded in the breech, the bottom end of the gun. The Pennsylvania long rifles could shoot up to 200 yards but was very slow on reloading, so it was not ideal on the battlefield. Cavalry pistols were often used in pairs, and stayed in pouches called holsters until needed. Hand grenades were smaller, rarer weapons that exploded when a lit fuse reaches gunpowder in the grenade. The tomahawk were small axes, that started out on the frontier for cutting wood, but were deadly on the battlefield, for they could become a throwing star. A bayonet was one of the soldiers most important weapons, because they could be attached to a rifle and stabbed at enemies.