... himself the brave. Charles Lee American patriots during the Revolutionary War of the 1770s and 1780s did not necessarily come from the colonies. On the contrary, one such "patriot-, as A.J. Langguth deems him, was from Britain, settling in colonial America on the eve of the Lexington and Concord shots, and finding himself appealed to the independence cause; this was General Charles Lee. Similarly ... to enjoy the steeped leaf drink, tea. Yet, the British parliament revered tea so greatly, that it imposed a tax on the leaves, and compounded this by forcing the colonists to purchase from t...

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... madness of his later years than for his intelligence and hardworking leadership of his country. McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. From his description of ... victory, there were one thousand British casualties in the skirmish. In July, 1775, when George Washington arrived to take charge of the colonial troops, the British soldiers were under siege in the city, with supplies and food running dangerously low. McCullough uses his opening chapters to ......

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