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The British opened fire on the colonists during events like the Boston Massacre in 1770 due to rising tensions between British soldiers and American colonists. The soldiers were in Boston to enforce British laws and maintain order, but they faced hostility from the colonists, who resented British taxation and military presence. In a chaotic confrontation, British troops fired into a crowd after feeling threatened, resulting in several colonist deaths and escalating tensions that contributed to the American Revolution.

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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.


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


How did the relationship between Britain and the colonists fall apart?

The British took the colonists out to dinner and that caused the colonists to really open up to them, they had a couple bottles of wine and found that they had a lot in common. Before you know it they were both back at the colonists place and the british were really hitting the colonists hard, but the colonists took it like champs and when the british ran out of seamen they returned home never to bother the colonists again.


What tactics did colonists use against the British troops on their march back from Concord to Boston?

The colonists used tactic we would now call guerrilla warfare tactics. They thought of their tactics as doing what worked when fighting the Native Americans, who also fought that way. The colonists hid behind trees and stones and waited for the British troops. Then the colonists would fire and retreat a small bit, then fire again and repeating this many times. Around 1500 out of 5000 British troops were killed and only around 100 of the colonies were shot.

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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 in the event known as the 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.


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.