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With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution
With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution
With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution
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With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution

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A masterful history of the first set-piece battle of the Revolutionary War, James L. Nelson's With Fire and Sword offers critical new insights into one of the most important actions of our country's founding.

On June 17, 1775, the entire dynamic of the newborn American Revolution was changed. If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was, in the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "shot heard round the world," Bunker Hill was the volley that rocked Britain's Parliament and the ministry of King George III to its core. The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first hostile engagement of the Revolution between two organized armies, and the first time that a genuine American army had ever taken the field. It gave the British their first inkling that the Colonial rabble-in-arms they had envisioned might actually prove to be a formidable fighting force.

In this book, award-winning author James L. Nelson tells the exciting and dramatic story of the fight that changed the face of the American Revolution. He looks at the events leading up to that fateful day, the personalities on both the British and American sides who made momentous decisions, and the bloody outcome of those crucial choices, which would affect the British strategy on the battlefield throughout the coming six more years of active warfare.

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Release dateMar 1, 2011
ISBN9781429968072
With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution
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James L. Nelson

James L. Nelson has served as a seaman, rigger, boatswain, and officer on a number of sailing vessels. He is the author of By Force of Arms, The Maddest Idea, The Continental Risque, Lords of the Ocean, and All the Brave Fellows -- the five books of his Revolution at Sea Saga. -- as well as The Guardship: Book One of the Brethren of the Coast. He lives with his wife and children in Harpswell, Maine.

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    This examination of the first seminal semi-formal battle of the Revolution is a detailed, comprehensive, and very readable account. Nelson's narrative moves along almost as quickly as the events did. All the major participants are chronicled. One can almost feel oneself in the redoubt or along the fences as these two different ideas and concepts clashed in a battle which would mark the beginning of a fundamental change for world history.

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