![]() It’s often terrified soldiers are led by the ineffectual, the self-interested, and the deceitful. His remarkably thorough research reveals a Continental Army that was often hapless, frightened, and under-resourced. In his latest work, The British Are Coming, Rick Atkinson does not expose this myth so much as blow it up. Led by sage strategists named Knox, Montgomery, and Washington, this army fights like hell against an organized, trained, and massive military machine. What these amateurs lack in materiel they made up for in spirit. The tale of the American Revolutionary War, one of our nation’s most enduring and romantic narratives, goes something like this: overtaxed farmers, blacksmiths, and millhands, yearning for divined liberty, exchange shovels, hammers, and chisels for muskets. With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules ![]() A Savage Birth: In “The British Are Coming,” Rick Atkinson Lays Bare the Myth of the American Revolution ![]()
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