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Q: Why did the British open fire at the colonists?
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Why did British open fire on colonists in the event known as the Boston massacre?

Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.


Why British soldiers open fire on colonists in the event known as the Boston massacre?

Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.


Why did British soldiers open fire on colonists in the events known as Boston Massacre?

Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.


Why did british soldiers open fire on colonist in the event known as the Boston?

Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.


Why did British soldiers open fire on in the event known as the Boston massacre?

Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.


The British lost the Battle of Bunker Hill.?

No, the British won the Battle of the Bunker Hill because after the Americans open fire led by Colonel Williams Prescott , then they run out of fire, and was forced to withraw. British won but suffered heavy losses-more than 1,000 dead and wounded. the British had learned that defeating the Americans on the battlefield would not be quick or easy.


What strengthened anti-british feelings with an engraving of the boston massacre?

Paul Revere


What did the British think of the colonist's fighting technique?

The British did not at all approve of the way the colonists were fighting. Colonists were using what is known as guerilla tactics. The British believed in open fighting, in lines, on fields. The colonists were attacking from cover, and quickly disappearing. The British found this ungentlemanly.


The event in which British troops fire on angry colonists in Boston is known as?

Boston Massacre


When do the british open fire of New York?

September 1776


British troops fired on colonists?

"Come on Rascals, you bloody lobster-backs. the british said "Fire if you dare" someone got knocked over and a colonists and the gun fired the shot "THATZ SWAG RIGHT THERE!"


During what incident did british troops fire on colonists for the first time killing five?

The Boston Massacre. In defense of the British, the Colonists were throwing sticks and stones at the soldiers and the British were just trying to defend themselves. It was not really murder, it was self defense.