Before The Battle of Lexington and Concord many thoughtful commentators, in both England and the American colonies, thought peace was possible between the colonies and the mother country. When they woke up on April 19, 1775, the men were at peace. When they laid their heads down that night, millions of people, across the greatest Empire in world history, were at war. Thousands would be wounded. Boston would be besieged for more than a year. New York City would be threatened. This is the story of that day and the “shot heard round the world.” It’s all here and it’s all free on this extensive military history of The American Revolution.

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References:

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, expanded edition, by Bernard Baylin. 

The Annals of America Volume 2 1755 – 1783 Resistance and Revolution by Mortimer Adler (editor)

Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World by George Daughan

Atlas of American Military History (2003). Edited by James Bradford. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. 

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson 

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson 

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin

The Sniper at War by Mike Haskew

A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence Babits

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A Revolutionary People at War by Charles Royster

The American Revolution: 1774-1783 by Daniel Marston

American Revolution Biographies by Linda Schmittroth and Mary Kay Rosteck; edited by Stacy A. McConnell.

The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants  by Henry Steele Commager (Editor), Richard B. Morris (Editor).

Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel by Charles Jellison

The American Revolution parts 1 and 2 by Allen Guelzo. The Teaching Company. 

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

American Wars and Heroes by Maurice Matloff (editor)

Boston Campaign: April 1775-March 1776 by Victor Brooks

British Soldiers; American War: voices of the American Revolution by Don Hagist

Charleston! Charleston!: The History of a Southern City by Walter Fraser, Junior. 

1776 by David Mccullough

Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Second Edition edited by Harold Selesky. 

The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness accounts of the War for Independence edited by John Dann

Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment during the American Revolution by Mark Urban.

George Washington’s War by Bruce Chadwick

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman

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The American Revolution: A History by Gordon Wood

George Washington’s War: The Saga of the American Revolution by Robert Leckie 

Kings Mountain: The Defeat Of The Loyalists October 7, 1780 by Dave Dameron 

The New England Clergy and the American Revolution by Alice Baldwin

New York 1776: The Continentals’ First Battle by David Smith

Boston 1775 by Brendan Morrissey 

Yorktown 1781: The World Turned Upside Down by Brendan Morrissey 

Saratoga 1777: The Turning Point of the Revolution by Brendan Morissey

Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum 

Guilford Courthouse: 1781 by Angus Konstam

Quebec 1775: The American Invasion of Canada by Brendan Morrissey 

Trenton and Princeton 1776-1777 by David Bonk

Forts of the American Frontier: 1776-1891 by Ron Field

Continental Infantryman of the American Revolution by John Milsop

Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes  by Christopher Hibbert

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The Pulpit of the American Revolution by John Thornton 

The Rhode Island Campaign by Christian McBurney

The Swamp Fox by John Oller

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The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles

The Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters by Edward Lengel 

Victory or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton by Mark Maloy 

The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton by Richard M. Ketchum 

With Musket and Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777 by M.O. Logusz, (2010)

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Continental Infantrymen of the American Revolution by John Milsop. 

George III: King and Politician by Peter D.G. Thomas

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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn Brodie

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Alexander Hamilton A Concise Biography by Broadus Mitchell

Massachusetts: A Concise History by Richard Brown and Jack Tager 

Colonial Rhode Island: A History by Sydney James

Colonial Connecticut: A History by Robert Joseph Taylor

Colonial Massachusetts: A History by Benjamin Labaree

Colonial Pennsylvania: A History by Joseph Illick

Colonial New Jersey: A history by John Pomfret

Colonial New York: A history  by Michael Kammen

Colonial South Carolina: A History by Robert Weir

Colonial Georgia: A History by Kenneth Coleman

Colonial North Carolina: A History by Hugh Lefler and William Powell

Colonial New Hampshire: A History by Jere Daniel 

Colonial Virginia: A History by Thad Tate, J. E. Seley and Warren Billings 

Colonial Maryland: A History by  Aubrey Land

Colonial Delaware: A History by John Munroe

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The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn by Henry P. Johnston

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The American Revolution: writings from the pamphlet debate

 Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes by Hibbert, Christopher

 The battle for New York : the city at the heart of the American Revolution by Schecter, Barnet 

Philadelphia: A 300 Year History edited by Russel Weigly 

The American Revolution in Indian country : crisis and diversity in Native American communities by Colin Calloway

 The winter soldiers : the battles for Trenton and Princeton by Richard Ketchum

Saratoga by Richard Ketchum

 1777: tipping point at Saratoga by Dean Snow

Victory at Yorktown : the campaign that won the Revolution by Richard Ketchum

Divided loyalties : how the American Revolution came to New York  by Richard Ketchum

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