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.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
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.
Paul Revere
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.
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.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
Colonists had thrown rocks and snowballs at the soldiers.
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.
Paul Revere
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.
Boston Massacre
September 1776
"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!"
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.