What are some things that made a soldier’s life difficult? Easy?Write a poem or a journal entry explaining what your life is like. What are your thoughts? Are you miserable? Hopeful? You can be a Continental soldier, British Redcoat, African American Loyalist, etc. Look at packet to find specific examples of battles that you can include in your writing. Be sure to imagine yourself as the soldier and use actual historic events to depict how you feel.
Example:
My Life at Long Island
Long Island , July 1776
The hot summer sun blinds me as I step out of my tent. Looking around the field, I see my comrades have already awakened. Jacob, my tent mate is kneeling by the fire and making another batch of firecakes. How many more months will we be forced to eat them? Perhaps the better question would be, how many more years? I cringe at this miserable thought. General Washington is hopeful. However, rumor has it, the British outnumber us in Long Island. We have 20,000 while General Howe’s army has 32,000. Is victory attainable? I’m not sure and to be honest, I’m more concerned with the fact that I have not bathed in 3 weeks, eaten a hot meal in 2 months, and have not received any mail in 4 months.
Lenny Smart, my dear friend from Virginia has already fled the army and now faces execution of caught. I don’t blame him. My Patriotism wears thin. Many feel that marching against the British in New York is a death trap. How much more of this can I take? How much longer can we go on?
Notes from Class
Battle of Bunker Hill
This was the first official battle of the American Revolution
-British tried to overtake an American Fort at Bunker Hill
-British lost more than 1000 men but the colonists ran out of ammunition and were forced to
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-Untrained
-Difficulties due to weather, weapons, lack of $$
-Trained by European leaders
-Ate undesirable food
-Disciplined if misbehaved
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