The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5‚ 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments‚ the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The soldiers and the captain‚ Thomas Preston‚ were all put on trial. All were acquitted of charges of murder‚ however the two soldiers who fired first‚ Private Mathew Killroy
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Civil War‚ but his most famous invention‚ the cotton gin‚ set the economic stage for war. Whitney’s gin made cotton production far more efficient‚ fueling the need for more Southern slaves and enriching powerful planters. Another Whitney invention--muskets with interchangeable components--inaugurated manufacturing systems for producing uniform parts‚ without which the U.S. economy might never have produced enough weapons to fight such a lengthy war. It only took one invention by a legendary man‚ Eli
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inventing and manufacturing new and deadly weapons‚ and other new ones created in the 1850s‚ such as Minié ammunition‚ were also tested. The Civil War represented a time of great variety of weapons‚ ranging from knives and swords to revolvers and muskets. The time of the Civil War was also a time of development of new weapons‚ such as the machine gun and the grenades. Some weapons‚ however‚ were used more often than others on the battlefield‚ thanks to their reliability and
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also patented a type of cotton gin. Whitney began using the assembly line to manufacture muskets that had interchangeable parts. He was then contracted to supply 10‚000 muskets for the U.S. government in two years. Prior to Whitney’s mechanization of the assembly line‚ craftsmen made muskets one at a time. Due to the handmade & custom nature of this process‚ each musket was unique. If a single part of the musket broke‚ it could not be easily replaced‚ but instead required a custom repair. Because parts
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The American Civil War of 1861‚ has been taught in schools of America to be a war between the Confederates and the Union about the institution of slavery. However‚ this war also created the basis of new forms of weaponry and technology. Small arms of the American Civil War‚ were revolutionized in order to ultimately create faster-firing weapons that would prove to immensely assist soldiers in the war. Also‚ the advancement in weapon technology impacted the tactics and the style of warfare utilized
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Philadelphia has had a long standing immigration of Irish citizens. The highest immigration of Irish into Philadelphia however was during the 19th century. The central cause of this spike in immigration was due to the failed potato crop in Ireland‚ which later became known as the Great Famine. Over a million Irish people died of starvation‚ while nearly another two million emigrated. A large portion of this plight landed in America‚ primarily to the Eastern coast cities‚ because copious amounts
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Over the course of two centuries‚ the ways that wars and battles are fought have changed drastically‚ and yet the end goal has always remained the same‚ to win and not be defeated no matter at what cost. As the progression of the Industrial Revolution escalated‚ it paved the way for what could be produced to help military forces win in battle. Industrialization during the 18th & 19th centuries caused the battles of Waterloo and the Somme to be a great example of how industrialization helped evolve
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The Fighting Ground By Avi Wortis 157 Pages Genre: Historical Fiction Book Report by Jake Thomas Character Analysis of Main Characters: Jonathan: Jonathan wants to be become a trained killer. However‚ Jonathan is only a thirteen-year-old boy who lives on a farm in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War in 1778 and his father will not allow him to join the Continental Army. Jonathan’s father fought in the early days of the war and seriously injured his leg and it is not easy for
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George’s men; Stanza 7‚ lines 9-10 “King George’s men came marching‚ up to the old inn door.” and continued in Stanza 8 verse 3-4 “they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her bed.” Even in betrayal‚ love triumphs‚ stanza 13 v 7-9‚ “her musket shattered the moonlight‚ shattered her breast in the moonlight‚ and warned him- with her death.” Revenge is the last‚ and the strongest theme. After his beloved’s death‚ at the hands of the “red coat trooper”‚ the poem described how he “slowly blanched
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boys that had become skilled at the bow and arrow and their firing of it was to be called unmatched because they could fire and reload fast. The muskets and other war weapons could not keep up with them. They were known as to be stealth killers because they made absolutely no sound at all when firing and there was no smoke or anything like the British muskets so they would remain hidden. And as tradition‚ the Oneida had brought along with them to the fort some bushels of corn to help with food for the
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