973.331/Daughan
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- Published
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company
[2018]
- Edition
- First edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xiv, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-327) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780393245745
- Main Author
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George C. Daughan
(author)
- The final straw
- General Thomas Gage and George III
- Benjamin Franklin excoriated
- Britain closes the Port of Boston
- Declaring war on Massachusetts
- Support for Boston broadens
- Defiance escalates
- A deepening crisis
- The counties strike back
- His Majesty refuses to bend
- The Powder Alarm
- The colonies unite
- The Suffolk Resolves
- Congress completes its work
- Slaves
- The perverse effects of the Powder Alarm
- The march to war
- Chatham's opposition
- Lords North and Dartmouth secretly search for peace
- The decision for war
- Parliament votes for war
- The country people
- The country people find many supporters
- Tensions mount
- Still waiting
- Fateful orders
- Gage's decision
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Paul Revere
- The British march to Concord bogs down
- A massacre at Lexington
- The road to Concord
- The Concord fight
- The bloody road back to Lexington
- Lord Percy to the rescue
- A masterful retreat
- The siege of Boston: part one
- The siege: part two
- Earth-shattering news.