VOCABULARY

Advantageous: ​Helpful or favorable.

Battle: A fight between large, organized military forces.

​Battery: A group of cannons used by the military.

Bayonet: A blade attached to the end of a musket.

Blockade: To use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving a

Cannonade: An attack with cannons.

Cape: a point of land that juts out into a large body of water.

Channel: A passageway in a harbor.

Cashiered: Dismissed from the armed forces in disgrace because of a serious misdemeanor.

Colonist: A settler in or inhabitant of a colony.

Congress: A group of representatives who meet to work ourt a problem

Deposition: A witness's formal statement, written or spoken, provided as evidence in support of facts.

Evacuation: 1.Something evacuated or discharged. 2.The withdrawal or removal of troops, civilians, etc.

Fusil: A light flintlock musket.

Fusilier: A member of any of several British regiments formerly armed with fusils.

Garrison: A military force that is set to defend a fort or city

Geography: The Study of Earth and the people, plants, and animals living on it.

Harbor: A protected water area near shore ships where the water is deep enough for large ship can safely dock

Intrenchments: Trenches, or narrow holes in the ground use to protect soldiers.

Massacre: The killing of people who cannot defend themselves.

Militia: A group of volunteer soldiers.

Minutemen: A member of the Massachusetts colony militia who could quickly (in a few minutes) be ready to fight the British.

Muster: A gathering of the militia to practice shooting or be inspected.

Peninsula: A piece of land surrounded on three side by water

Propaganda: Information, ideas or facts spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause.

Protest: To complain against an idea or an action.

Provincial: An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.

Redoubt: A small building or area that gives protection to soldiers under attack.

Rubbish: Worthless, destroyed.

Regulars: A name that referred to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

Revolution: When people fight to replace one government with a different government.

Shipwright: a person in the trade of yacht and/or shipbuilding.

Shoreline: The water's edge.​

Surveyor: Someone whose job is to measure and examine an area of land.

Siege: A long-lasting attack.

Trench: A long narrow area dug in the ground, where the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.

Topography: Arrangement of the land surface; the graphic description of that arrangement in map form, as by contour lines.

Volley: When a large number of muskets is fired at once.

Wharf: A structure built on the shore projecting out into a harbor or area of water so that ships can can dock, to load or unload.