Musket

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is thought to have been a war strategy. People believe this because when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, he made slaves free only in confederate states. This strategy hurt the south and the plantation owners that lived there. By taking slaves away from plantations, the south became limited on resources. This weakened the confederacy which gave the north a better chance in the war. During the course of the Civil War, Britain relied on the…

The beginning battles of the Revolution, such as the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge and the Battle of Lexington and Concord, were a key morale boost for the Patriots in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Lexington and Concord occurred on April 19, 1775. However, before the Battle of Lexington and Concord came to be, representatives of the colonists gathered for the First Continental Congress in Massachusetts. As the meeting adjourned, the colonies decided to…

Instead of the regular smoothbore muskets, the Springfield 1861 was invented using the new minie ball. These bullets were shaped like a cone with a hollow inside, and on the outside were three grooves packed with grease. The groves would give it a spin while coming out of the barrel which…

The British had two redoubts that needed to be captured; these were the targets of the American and French guns. While the bombardment continued, the American and French Armies continued to dig parallel lines that would become closer and closer to the British lines. On October 10th, realizing the dire situation he was in, Cornwallis began to sink more than a dozen of his ships in the harbor to prevent their capture. He also received word from New York City that the British fleet would depart…

field medics who would use the gunpowder to cauterize wounds in emergency situation. https://sites.google.com/site/theadvancesofgunpowder/.../alternate-uses-of-gunpowder. Advances in technology lead to the development of hand held weapons such as the musket; and the firing bolts with iron feathers, Soon after more technological advances produced the cannon that were mainly used by the European military. Skilled military craftsmen who were later called fire makers…

to or willing to be trained and the fact that many of his troops would just walk off to tend to their harvest or work on their trade or simply left because of the harsh weather, to make matter worse many of the troops would just walk off with their musket dispute having a lack of supply of them. This further complicated any military action that Washington wanted to…

Massacres involve many people, yet the Boston Massacre is more of a paradox. The paradox of this involves the use of propaganda which demonstrates this massacre of five deaths into a big idea. This causes the United States to focus and narrow the blame towards Great Britain. This event occurred on the same day the parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts.These acts were an external tax that charged colonists a tariff for importing manufactured good into the U.S. This caused the colonists…

My Brother Sam is Dead Rykhus 3 Sam and his father had many conflicts on the political problems as a Loyalists (Sam’s Father) who have to pay taxes and have to do what the King says or they get killed, while Sam is on the Patriots side, the Patriots are against the King and his rules. Sam’s father did not agree with Sam on the side of the patriots because he didn’t want problems with the King and his Soldiers. Sam’s father always argued with Sam for not being on the side of the English King but…

The Battle of Yorktown The battle of Yorktown is often considered the last major battle of the revolutionary war, a fascinating battle where a tiny mistake cost the British the war. In this paper I will describe the main events of the war, along with each side's army. I will give you a glimpse into the battle of Yorktown, where young men gave their lives for freedom. At Yorktown three armies collided the French, the Americans, and the British at Yorktown Virginia. The French and the Americans…

white people took advantage of the Indians. They would take their land and give them nothing in return. There was only one white man on record to give back to the indians. His name was William Carson. Carson traded a Wiyot man a sack of flour, an old musket, powder, and shot for a piece of land he wanted to use for lumber.…