Why Did Thomas Win The Revolutionary War

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Thomas’s arm. Thomas started to scream as loud as he could. Then he dozed off to sleep.
Thomas woke the next day and looked over to see his arm gone. He started to cry with sadness and pain that his life would be changed forever. With no amr he was sent home. He had soon heard news that the continental army had won the battle of Yorktown.
Winning Strategy
The colonists didn’t have a line of soldiers that lined up and shot they were scattered around and shot at it that way. Thomas Johnson thought it was a better strategy. The British were often shot down because they were standing still. The colonists did like a shoot and run strategy and it worked they ended up winning many battles this way. They also just wore the British down over

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