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Christopher Hibbert T* Tr H L _1/1 J/ V Hifl A >N1 m 71 -4 BM$iv th 1/1 The American Through Revolution FPT ISBN 393-02*" X $2995 'Among most versatile ofliving historians, 11 Mr Hibbertcombines impeccable scholarship with a liveliness ofstyle that lures the reader from page to page.' Sunday Telegraph On the eveningof 16 December 1773 a numberof men disguised as Mohawks, their faces darkened by soot, marched down to a wharfin Boston, Massachusetts where the British ship Dartmouth lay at anchorwith three hundred chests oftea in her hold. In protest against a tea duty imposed upon the colonies without theirconsent, they smashed the chests with their tomahawks, hurling the contents overboard. Itwas the latest in a series ofriots which provoked the war that was to win the Americans their independence. The story ofthis war has usually been told in terms ofa conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities ofa savage warwhich raged the length of an entire continent- a war, condemned by thousands ofhis fellow-countrymen, which George Washington came dangerouslyclose to losing, a war in which -both before and after General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga- the British rarely lost a battle, until the French, motivated largely by seif-interest, helped the rebels to defeat Lord Cornwallis atYorktown in 1781. Based on a wide variety ofsources-several of them published here for the first time -and enlivened by astute character sketches ofthe principal participants as well as by numerous eye- witness accounts, RedcoatsandRebels presents a vivid, absorbing and entirely convincing picture of the 'cruel, accursed' war thatchanged the world forever. There is no other full-scale popular history ofthe American War ofIndependence available. Christopher Hibbert's account both fills this gap and confirms his stature as a masterly writer ofnarrative history. Illustrated REDCOATS AND REBELS By the same author MILITARY HISTORY Wolfe at Quebec The Destruction ofLord Raglan: A Tragedy ofthe Crimean War Corunna The Battle ofArnhem Agincourt HISTORY King Mob: Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780 The Roots ofEvil: A Social History ofCrime and Punishment The Court at Windsor: A Domestic History The Grand Tour London: The Biography ofa City The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911 The Rise and Fall ofthe House ofMedici The Great Mutiny: India 1857 The French Revolution Rome: The Biography ofa City The English: A Social History 1066-1945 Venice: The Biography ofa City BIOGRAPHIES Benito Mussolini: The Rise and Fall ofII Duce Garibaldi and His Enemies: The Clash ofArms and Personalities in the Making ofItaly The Making ofCharles Dickens Charles I The Personal History ofSamuelJohnson George IV: Prince ofWales, 1762-1811 George IV: Regent and King, 1811-1830 Edward VII: A Portrait Queen Victoria in Her Letters andJournals Christopher Hibbert REDCOATS AND REBELS The American Revolution Through British Eyes WW-NORTON & COMPANY New York London * K \\ © Copyright Christopher Hibbcrt 1990 First American Edition, 1990 All Rights Reserved. Originally published in England under the title Redcoatsand Rebels: The WarforAmerica, 1770-1781 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hibbert, Christopher. 1924- Rcdcoats & Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes/Christopher Hibbert./ist American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. United States- History-Revolution, 1775-1783 Campaigns. I.Title. II. Title: Redcoats and Rebels. E230.H52 1990 90-31753 973-3'3-dc20 ISBN O-393-O2895-X W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, n y ioiio W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd. 37 Great Russell Street, London wcib 3NU Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Collins Sons and Co. Limited, Glasgow 456789 1 2 3 ()
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