If I Were a British Soldier

Jamie Swetnam American History to 1865 September 17, 2010 If I were a British Soldier station outside the capital of Massachusetts tradition house on marching 5, 1770 My name is John Smothers, I am an 18 year old British Infantry Soldier. I am a little cow chip shorter than you would ring an mediocre male to be, and skinny to boot. I have disgustful fair hair with a bit of scruff on my face. I am stationed in Boston, Massachusetts near the Boston Customs House. This is my story of the events that happened on March 5, 1770. On the sunrise of March 5, 1770 it was a cold snowy twenty-four hours, which was the same(p) as the daytime before. The day had started out as every other day before had. Of course the definition of customary is a bit different than what we have today. on that request were the Patriots, who in my opinion were rebels with no respect for both impartiality except what they had made. There were the colonists that were bonny well content with everything until pushed besides far. Who was to know they were already pushed to the edge, and on the nose needed a little nudge to go overboard? Then in that respect was us, the British Army, well nobody wish us existence in Boston, we did not want to be thither either. all in all I know is that we were at that place beneath direct orders to lend oneself tax revenue measures passed by the British Parliament.

The settler and the patriots thought the taxation measures were unfair because they lacked American representation. There were hardly a(prenominal) feuds here and there it was no big deal and comely ea sy to pull to go abouther control of the ou! tbreaks when they started. About midday I could sense that there was accent and that some outbreaks were going to happen. There was more latent hostility with the Colonist than normal, and that was never good. Eventually we handle and blew off the tension and thought everything was going to go still like any other day before. Then came the level hours and thats when everything went hay wire. Tension reached an all-time high when Edward Garrik, a wigmaker was accusing British Officer Lieutenant John golden warbler of not...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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