Band Of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
by Jack Kelly /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Band of Giants
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for
our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and
Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are
less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only
became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim,
risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry
Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American
artillery at the age of 25? Eighteen counties in the United States
commemorate Richard Montgomery, but do we know that this revered
martyr launched a full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of
the American Revolution were a diverse lot: merchants and
mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were
ardent amateurs. Even George Washington, assigned to take over the
army around Boston in 1775, consulted books on military tactics.
Here, Jack Kelly vividly captures the fraught condition of the
war―the bitterly divided populace, the lack of supplies, the
repeated setbacks on the battlefield, and the appalling physical
hardships. That these inexperienced warriors could take on and
defeat the superpower of the day was one of the remarkable feats in
world history.
brings to life the founders who fought for
our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and
Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are
less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only
became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim,
risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry
Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American
artillery at the age of 25? Eighteen counties in the United States
commemorate Richard Montgomery, but do we know that this revered
martyr launched a full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of
the American Revolution were a diverse lot: merchants and
mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were
ardent amateurs. Even George Washington, assigned to take over the
army around Boston in 1775, consulted books on military tactics.
Here, Jack Kelly vividly captures the fraught condition of the
war―the bitterly divided populace, the lack of supplies, the
repeated setbacks on the battlefield, and the appalling physical
hardships. That these inexperienced warriors could take on and
defeat the superpower of the day was one of the remarkable feats in
world history.