The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War (Journal of the American Revolution Books)

The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War (Journal of the American Revolution Books)

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With a Clash Between American Rebels and Royal Authorities Heating Up, Radicals Smuggled Cannon Out of Bostonand the British Came Looking for ThemIn the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Bostons colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New Englands growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts Patriots, meanwhile, prepared to thwart the generals mission. There was one goal Gage and his enemies shared: for different reasons, they all wanted to keep the stolen cannon as secret as possible. Both sides succeeded well enough that the full story has never appeared until now.The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by historian J. L. Bell reveals a new dimension to the start of Americas War for Independence by tracing the spark of its first battle back to littleknown events beginning in September 1774. The author relates how radical Patriots secured those four cannon and smuggled them out of Boston, and how Gage sent out spies and search parties to track them down. Drawing on archives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the book creates a lively, original, and deeply documented picture of a society perched on the brink of war.

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