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Rebels & Redcoats: A Review
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Rebels and Redcoats, written by George Scheer and Hugh Rankin, paints a vivid description of the American Revolution. Each chapter of the book discusses a major event of the Revolution, and includes first hand accounts from individuals - from ordinary soldiers and citizens to generals and statesmen - involved on both the Yankee and British sides of the war. A number of ordinances established by the British government in the colonies during the 1760s were responsible for the souring of relations between Britain and the Colonists. Colonists were furious over the strict regulations and taxes the British had placed upon them. Acts like the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, and the Stamp Act, were seen as unfair among the colonies. The final straw for the colonists was the imposition of the Intolerable Acts in the summer of 1774, which were created to punish the colonists after the 1773 Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were seen in the American colonies as the blueprints for a British plan to deny the Americans representative government. Soon after, fighting had broken out all over New England, and with the Battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775 the Revolutionary War began. Lexington – April 19, 1775 The book begins with an account of the evening of April 18, 1775 and the early hours of April 19, 1775. A messenger had been sent to the home of Paul Revere, Boston’s most gifted craftsman, and a prominent figure in Bostonian politics and the Whig party. Dr. Joseph Warren, another important political leader in Boston had summoned Revere for his help.
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Title: Rebels & Redcoats: A Review
Words: 1301
Rating: None
Pages: 5.2
submitted by: concertnut01
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