Showing The Day the American Revolution Began : 19 April 1775 by William H. Hallahan

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 Pages: 352 in Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks At around 4A.M. Wednesday 19 April 1775. The advance contingent of a two-thousand-man itish military force marched into Lexington. Fully witharmed and battle ready. and there confronted seventy-seven American militia men drawn up on the village green. A musket shot was fired. the itish attacked. and in the ensuing battle that lasted all day and into the night. several thousand American militia. having rushed from every corner of the countryside. killed seventy-three Redcoats. wounded two hundred more. and chased the remaining eighteen hundred back to Boston and their astonished leader. General Thomas Gage.Drawing on diaries. letters. official documents and memoirs. William H. Hallahan follows the news of Lexington and Concord as it sweeps across the colonies. setting afire cities and small towns. vi...