RON'S PICKS.1776, by David McCullough, Simon and Schuster, 386 pages, $32.00. Looks at the sweep of events that created the American republic in the year of the Declaration of Independence. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who wrote "John Adams" and "Truman," chronicles the drama of those who marched with General George Washington in the battles of the American Revolution American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. . Also looks at two young American patriots, Nathanael Greene Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most and Henry Knox, and examines their contributions to the war effort. The book starts with King George III's attempt to crush American rebellion, runs through the Siege of Boston The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen—and then the Continental Army—surrounded the city of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army and then to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . There, Washington's army confronts the British for the first time, then went from defeat to defeat until the general turns his fortunes around and sets the stage for British defeat and the birth of the new nation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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