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Redcoats During The Revolutionary War

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In 1775, there was a man named joe and he was very happy with the way his life was going. He had just got a new home in the top story of a building and his bedroom window was facing an alley. One night when he was just about to go to bed and he heard a big argument going on outside and he looked out his window and there were a group of men with red coats and a group of colonists. The redcoats were being cornered in the alley by the colonists and the redcoats were getting really frustrated. He tried to ignore the argument but it was too loud for him to go to sleep. So he looked out his window again and saw that the redcoats had there weapons ready and ready to fire. “Shoot me!!!” said an angry colonist “kill me” said another. The red coats hesitated. There was a colonist at point blank and the red coat turned his rifle over and hit him with the butt of his rifle. The group of angry colonist got angrier. The redcoats got even more frustrated. And then 1 by one the red coats began to load there musket rifles. The redcoats were ordered to shoot into the mob of colonists and the colonists fell to the ground of the alley. The red coats began to shoot all at once the colonists still stood in the alley. …show more content…

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