America's First Soldiers

<p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>America’s First Soldiers</span></em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'> unfolds with the critical events and people that lead Massachusetts to initiate the American Revolutionary War. These first soldiers were the catalyst for the skirmish at Lexington Green the </span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>b</span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>attle of the Old North Bridge and the life and death struggle along a 16-mile road passing through six Massachusetts towns in a violent running battle of fire and maneuver.</span></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><br></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>Dig in on the deadly struggle for a Boston hilltop Breed’s Hill known as Bunker Hill. For the British Army it was the deadliest battle of the American Revolutionary War. This </span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>b</span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>attle more than any other event created the moment Massachusetts and the other </span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>c</span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>olonies realized the American Revolution had begun.</span></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><br></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>Meet a young Boston bookseller who believed he could bomb the mighty British army out of Boston. He became <em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;'>Washington’s Yankee</span></em> standing with him from Boston to victory at Yorktown.  He was the man General Washington personally chose to succeed him as the Continental Army’s commanding general.</span></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><br></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>America’s First Soldiers</span></em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'> is the account of extraordinary men whose defeat of the British was so thorough that during the eight-year struggle of the American Revolutionary War the British never again fought in Massachusetts.</span></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><br></p><p class=body style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;'><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>Part 1 of this book chronicles <em><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;'>America’s First Soldiers. </span></em>Part 2 visits some of the well</span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>-</span><span style='font-family:Bookman Old Styleserif;color:black;'>preserved and fascinating sites in Massachusetts as a 21st-century historical to...