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1776
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"No people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans." Mercy Warren
This book is an incredibly vivid accounting of the year 1776 and the birth of a nation. It starts with the siege of Boston in 1775 and ends with the Battle at Princeton in January 1777. It shows the hard struggles and triumphs of Washington and the Continental Army. I loved this book so much. David McCullough uses the journals and letters written by the soldiers from both sides of the war to tell the story. It's absolutely incredible. I think it's a book everyone should have to read because it shows how a small group of people fighting for a "glorious cause" can change history.
I don't think people today understand the sacrifices these patriots made out of love for their country. It staggers the mind to see how ill-equipped and inexperienced the army was, but they triumphed over the greatest military force in the world because they never quit. Another thing that blew me away is the age of the majority of the people fighting. The revolutionaries were so young! Many of the generals were only in their 20s or 30s, and Washington was only in his 40s! I think it's amazing that people so young could overcome and accomplish so much!
The Revolutionary War was a long, difficult war, and this book obviously only covers one year of it. However, it provides an incredibly detailed account of it. I also love how this book spends a lot of time talking about Knox and Greene. Now I want to go out and find books about them to read.
Basically, everyone should read this book, because it's really great. It makes you love America even more.
This book is an incredibly vivid accounting of the year 1776 and the birth of a nation. It starts with the siege of Boston in 1775 and ends with the Battle at Princeton in January 1777. It shows the hard struggles and triumphs of Washington and the Continental Army. I loved this book so much. David McCullough uses the journals and letters written by the soldiers from both sides of the war to tell the story. It's absolutely incredible. I think it's a book everyone should have to read because it shows how a small group of people fighting for a "glorious cause" can change history.
I don't think people today understand the sacrifices these patriots made out of love for their country. It staggers the mind to see how ill-equipped and inexperienced the army was, but they triumphed over the greatest military force in the world because they never quit. Another thing that blew me away is the age of the majority of the people fighting. The revolutionaries were so young! Many of the generals were only in their 20s or 30s, and Washington was only in his 40s! I think it's amazing that people so young could overcome and accomplish so much!
The Revolutionary War was a long, difficult war, and this book obviously only covers one year of it. However, it provides an incredibly detailed account of it. I also love how this book spends a lot of time talking about Knox and Greene. Now I want to go out and find books about them to read.
Basically, everyone should read this book, because it's really great. It makes you love America even more.
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Reading Progress
July 4, 2015
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Started Reading
July 4, 2015
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August 26, 2015
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38.6%
""When I look down and see the prodigious fleet they have collected, and the preparations they have made, and consider the vast expenses incurred, I cannot help being astonished that a people should come 3000 miles at such risk, trouble and expense to rob, plunder and destroy another people because they will not lay their lives and fortunes at their feet." Joseph Reed"
page
149
August 26, 2015
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40.16%
""Remember officers and soldiers that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of liberty." General George Washington"
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155
September 7, 2015
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58.03%
""I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Captain Nathan Hale"
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224
September 7, 2015
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61.92%
""...but give me leave to assure his excellency that actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity." Colonel Magaw"
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239
September 7, 2015
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63.99%
""I hope this is the dark part of the night, which is generally just before day." General Nathanael Greene"
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247
September 7, 2015
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74.09%
""Instead of thinking myself freed from all civil obligations by this mark of their confidence, I shall constantly bear in mind that as the sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established." General George Washington"
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286
September 7, 2015
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Finished Reading
