The story never loses its power to amaze: the ordinary citizens, farmers, and merchants of the British colonies (a “race of convicts,” in Samuel Johnson’s pugnacious phrase), goaded by a series of acts of the British Parliament designed to tame their growth and punish their presumption (the Coercive Acts, the Boston Port Act, the Quartering Act, each more insulting than the one before it, and with no end in sight), eventually summon the will to revolt. This first volume, “The British Are Coming,” covers the well-trod territory of the Revolution’s beginnings, and all such accounts - from Henry Beebe Carrington’s military narrative published in 1881 to Thomas Fleming’s surprise 1960 Bunker Hill bestseller Now We Are Enemies to Robert Middlekauff’s seminal 1982 book The Glorious Cause, the first volume in the Oxford History of the United States. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 is the first installment in the Revolution Trilogy, promising an in-depth look at the battles and campaigns that won American independence. Readers who loved Rick Atkinson’s bestselling Liberation Trilogy will have a good idea what to expect from the author’s new book.
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