The Day the American Revolution Began 19 April 1775

by Hallahan, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780380796052
• ISBN10: 0380796058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-14
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

At four in the morning on April 19, 1975, a line of British soldiers stared across the village green of Lexington, Massachusetts, at a crowd of seventy-seven Amercican militiamen. A shot rang out, and the Redcoats replied with a devastating volley.But the day that started so well for the king's troops would end in catastrophe: seventy-three British soldiers dead, two hundred wounded, and the survivors chased back into Boston by the angry colonists. Drawing on diaries, letters, official documents, and memoirs, William H. Hallahan vividly captures the drama of those tense twenty-four hours and shows how they decided the fate of two nations.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Note to the Reader	p. xiii
Boston	p. 1
New York	p. 103
Philadelphia	p. 129
Williamsburg	p. 175
Preparing for War	p. 211
London	p. 245
Afterward	p. 281
Drumbeats Toward Revolution	p. 295
Endnotes	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 311
Index	p. 317
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