The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776; the struggle has taken on something a mythic character; especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; from the heroic resistance of the militia Minutemen at the battles of Lexington and Concord to the famous crossing of the Delaware by General George Washington; and from the American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of the British at Yorktown (1781); the entire contest is now emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows that; beyond mythology; this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The thirteen colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations; with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution but situates it on the wider; global canvas of European warfare.
#1121247 in Books 2017-01-01Original language:English 8.50 x .47 x 5.50l; .58 #File Name: 1848258623208 pages
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