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Dear Family, I am a british solider. I am writing to see how things are going at the house and to tell you my experiences. i sleep in a tent with 1 pillow and 1 blanket and with 2 to 6 other soldiers. somtimes we would have to sleep in the snow, the rain, and maybe in a thunderstorm. I eat deer, squirl, rabbit, birdsvand also different kinds of berries. What i wear everyday is a whiteshirt, a red coat, white pants and black boots. My weapons that i carry around are a musket with small round metal musket balls and black gun powder with a bayonet. I also carry around a pistol also with musket balls and black gun powder, sword and a knife. I was trained in a elite class of british worriors. If you did somthing wrong or mouthed to your captin you would be beaten down. Somtimes the soldiers were beaten down so hard that they would go to the infermery or not being able to come back to train they would just have to go home. they made us walk through the woods and live the life of a real british soldier. We were traing for so long and so hard that when it was time to go to sleep we would only have 3 to 6 hours. The battels i saw and was in were the boston masacure [i had killed one of the civilians]. I had to go to court with five other soldiers and was not sentanced because i was defending myself. I was in the battle on canada and redcoats we had gone in with 5,000 men and came back with 800 to 1,000 men. I had captured a 19 or 20 year old scout who was spying on are position and hung him the next day after a devestating beat down. When the boy died his last words were "I feel bad that i only have one life to give to my country" then right after those words we droped the sand bag and hungnhim. The way i live is i sleep in rain, snow. mud, wind and even thunderstorms. we only had 5 sets of cloths and they dident always get cleand. if any holes were to be shot in your jacket pants or boots you would not get a new set for a long time. We didet always have enough tents, blankets or pillows for everyone. in every group there is at least 20 soliders that have slept with nothing they just slept on the ground. there were always trees leaves and trap pot holes everywere from the patriots setting traps. So by the end of the day we would have at least 5 injured men. I am fighting because we need money for our family and because they betrayed us and killed my father. Hope to see you again soon!!!!!!

Love, Jakob