Chapter 18

Question 0

“Wait until you see the whites of their eyes”

Answer 0

When you are far away you cannot see the whites of a persons eyes

• because the americans were low on gun powder the American officers said wait until they are closer
• when the enemies are closer you have an easier shot at killing them rather than shooting from a far and missing

Question 1

Breeds hill and Bunker HIll

Answer 1

• lies across the Charles River from Boston.
• Sat next to Bunker Hill
• On the Peninsula connected to the mainland by a narrow neck: the Charlestown peninsula

-On the night of 1775 when the British soldiers were asleep, the Mass. soldiers went to Breed’s Hill and dug fortifications (a defensive wall or reinforcement built to strengthen a place from attack)

• First battle between British and Boston revolutionists
• The British have always wanted the colonists to work for them because they needed barracks.
• American’s built themselves barriers
• British were dumbfounded by their impressive work;they always thought americans were lazy
• Breed’s Hill was full of men & covered with great earthworks
• It was a great battle, America vs the British
• Was a traumatizing event
• 441 Americans killed
• 1000 British soldiers killed/wounded