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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Marston |
| ISBN: | 0415968372 9780415968379 9780203492871 0203492870 |
| OCLC Number: | 51942608 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Botley, Oxford : Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2002. |
| Description: | 95 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Background to war : colonial agitation -- Warring sides : linear and irregular warfare -- Outbreak : shot heard round the world -- The fighting : colonial and world war -- Portrait of a soldier : Massachusetts professional -- The world around war : war on the homefront -- Portrait of a civilian : Boston loyalist -- How the war ended : stalemate -- Conclusion and consequences : influence of the American revolution. |
| Series Title: | Essential histories. |
| Responsibility: | Daniel Marston. |
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Abstract:
"The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment Daniel Marston argues that this belief, though widespread, is a misconception. He contends that the American Revolution, in reality, created deep political divisions in the population of the Thirteen Colonies, while militarily pitting veterans of the Seven Years War against one another, in a conflict that combined guerrilla tactics and classic 18th-century campaign techniques on both sides. The peace treaty of 1783 that brought an end to the war marked the formal beginning of the United States of America as an independent political entity."--Jacket.
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