Spencer Rosenblum
2015

Colonial soldier life analysis (from research paper)

The life of a colonial soldier was a very dangerous one that was very important. The soldiers had an awful daily life, bad weapons, bad medicine and surgeons, the African soldiers being discriminated, the Native Americans had to team with the enemy to get there own land back from those very people, dangerous battle tactics and information for battle techniques which were probably wrong. But without these soldiers taking these odds, and continuing to take these odds to this very day the world would be awful, because all good things come from conflict.

Cole Dorsey
2015

Colonial soldier life analysis (from research paper)

The soldiers would have to work very hard not only in battles but in training. The rewards of being a soldier were not much. To be able to survive a war you had to be willing and able to fight for your country. That is why fighting as a soldier was very difficult and took skill. To be a soldier you had to know how your gun worked, know how to fire, know the commands to fire a musket, attend Church and how medicine worked. There is so much that the colonial soldier must know from how to spy to how to become a soldier when starting as a militia man. Soldiers had a significant impact on everything in Colonial America and even now. If soldiers did not do what they did we would not have won the wars that they won. The Natives and Africans also played a big role in the soldier’s life. The Africans fought in the wars and helped out the European soldiers. Natives helped progress the weapons that we use to this day. Thanks to all of these cultures we are where we are today. Thanks to the soldiers smart tactics and thinking they were able to win the war and beat the British which would lead to this great country being born.

Aidhan
2015

Last paragraph of paper:

All of those three cultures had different weapons and tactics, each with advantages and disadvantages. Without weapons and tactics, no culture can survive. The Patriots, in a way, are all three cultures combined, and were victorious because they had all of the key elements of each culture. Today, we as Patriots, are still learning to defend against different enemies and need to keep adapting our weapons and tactics accordingly.

Oliver Eig

December 15th 2016

The Native American and the English culture both used weapons to force different people and animals into certain situations where they could control them. The Africans were enslaved by the English, so they didn’t have access to weapons. In fact, many weapons were used against them as a way of keeping them from rebelling. The technology of weapons met the needs that they had back then, but over time they continued to develop and grow. The Native American weapons and the English weapons were similar, if not the same, since the Native Americans traded for the English weapons because they were more effective. But they were similar because they used weapons to get what they wanted when diplomacy didn’t work. This is significant because it shows how weapons shaped the world’s history, because without weapons, perhaps conflicts would not escalate to the same level that they do today. If diplomacy failed during the Revolution, then we would have not have had another option, such as using weapons, which allowed us to brute force us in creating our own country.

Milei

2016

Being in the army was very important in Colonial America and it still is to this day. Being organized and having a certain system was an essential part of life in the army and during battle. Without these drills the army would be in total chaos and wouldn’t know what to do in battle. The three cultures were influenced a lot in the army too. The Native Americans were not soldiers, but they made lot’s of different weapons that English soldiers have used before. There were a lot of African soldiers because some of them used to be slaves before they became soldiers, and there slave masters who didn’t wish to serve for themselves in the army would replace themselves with the African Americans. So The three cultures were very important in the army.