What Is The Turning Point In The Revolutionary War

qImagine you are sleeping away in an apartment on the main road of Concord Massachusetts. You wake up to a ton of yelling. So you go downstairs grab your musket and run outside. Then you look down the road and you see hundreds of redcoats marching forward. But then you see a line of colonist with muskets walk out and block the entrance. The regulars start to tell them to turn around and go back home. They started to turn around and then someone fires a shot and a British soldier drops. That was what you would see on the first day in the revolutionary war. In this paper, I will show you why the Colonies were a serious underdog, what a surprise attack was, and finally what the turning point in the war was. They were an underdog and it definitely showed. The first thing that stuck out about the American colonies army was that they were all untrained. They all would just fire at will with little to no aim. So when it came to facing the regulars all they could do was fire into the crowd of redcoats. This would work for a little while but soon this stopped being
But soon after that, there was a point that would change the face of the war completely. The Americans faced a huge enemy force of thousands and thousands of British troops. So what they would do was kept coming out of bushes and other shrubbery and killing as many redcoats as they could and then retreating. They slowly took away the force of the regulars in the form of their size in numbers. They would get them down to a matchable force and then came the final battle of Saratoga which was a win. This would change how other countries thought of the American colonists. By winning the colonies won the ally in France which would overall help them a lot in the war. They also showed the regulars and the king that the colonies were a force to be reckoned with and they should not underestimate