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The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

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The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War - Bell, J L
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In the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Boston's colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New England's growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts ...

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The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War 2016, Westholme Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781594162497

Hardcover