In the Time of the Revolution

The American Revolution was a war but it was also a time a span of history in which some people fought but most just lived. They thought acted worked raised families worshipped built sold bought and tried to live as best they could in a time of hope anxiety despair loss gain and above all disruption. <BR /><BR /><BR /><I>In the Time of the Revolution</I> is a popular single-volume history of the American Revolution 1775 to 1783 an intensely active exciting and critical span of time in North America. It began with a lopsided skirmish at Lexington Massachusetts culminated militarily in a major amphibious campaign mounted by a large Franco-American army against British army and naval forces at Yorktown Virginia in 1781 and then passed through two more years of desultory combat and cruel fights between diehard Loyalists and vengeful Patriots before ending in the Treaty of Paris. During these eight years in an America that was a collection of young towns on the edge of a vast wilderness the break-up with the mother country was the central fact of life.