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One way basket making was useful was in making "gabions". These were round, tall woven wicker items, like a basket, but without a top or bottom. They were useful to the army for making field fortifications. When the soldiers got to a place they wanted to set up and defend, they could line up the gabions and fill them with dirt, to quickly make an earthen wall. Several rows of gabions could be placed one behind the other, to make a thick wall, and more could be placed on top of the first ones, to make the wall taller. These earthen walls quickly made by filling gabions would stop most musket balls and, if made thick enough, many cannon balls too.
When Washington forced the British to evacuate Boston in March of 1776, he did so by overnight placing cannon on Dorchester Heights, hills overlooking and commanding all of Boston and its harbor. The men dragged the cannon up the hill and carried empty gabions with them, which they spent the night placing and filling with dirt, so that by morning when the British awoke they saw an imposing earthwork fort bristling with cannon atop the Heights. The British realized this made their position in Boston indefensible and no longer tenable.
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How did the french fight in the Revolutionary War?
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