"In 1760, no one could imagine the American colonies revolting against Great Britain. The colonists were not hungry peasants groaning under the whip of a brute.

At 4 AM on April 19, 1775, several companies of light infantry from the British Army marched into Lexington, Massachusetts and confronted 77 colonists drawn up

"For those who like their history rich in vivid details, Derek Beck has served up a delicious brew in this book....This may soon become everyone's favorite." �

The letters in the first 60 pages purport to be written from Gibraltar and Lisbon; such of the others as were written by Mehemet, from Philadelphia.

An account of the opening battles of the American Revolution, tracing the beginnings of war from the embarkation of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1773 to the Bri