A Short History of the American Revolutionary War Conway Stephen
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War Conway Stephen The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. From the Boston Tea Party…
Specifikacia A Short History of the American Revolutionary War Conway Stephen
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War Conway Stephen
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; 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. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character.
The Thirteen Colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. Stephen Conway shows that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution