Best Little Stories of the American Revolution is a journalistic history of the birth of the United States in the form of more than 100 vignettes reflecting the period. Here is the history of the war as it affected soldiers and civilians, loyalists and patriots, leaders and common folk - people who courageously prevailed against an enemy with vastly superior resources.
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C. Brian Kelly, a prize-winning journalist, is cofounder of Montpelier Publishing and a columnist and editor emeritus for Military History magazine. He is also a lecturer in newswriting at the University of Virginia. Kelly's articles have appeared in Reader's Digest, Friends, Yankee, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, and other magazines. He is the author of several books on American history and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
They disembarked from their boats and were on the march by 2:30 AM, first passing through "swamps and slips of the Sea," wrote Ensign Jeremy Lister of England's Tenth Regiment of Foot. It was "soon after" he and the troops hit the road to Lexington that "the Country people begun to fire their alarm guns (and) light their Beacons, to raise the Country."
He could have guessed right then that it was only the beginning of a long night and day for himself and his fellow soldiers of the Crown. He, for one, would survive, but not entirely unscathed.
The first action he saw was at Lexington, "the first Blood drawn in this American Revolution."
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